Forrest Airport
Forrest Airport is an airport located in the hamlet of Forrest, Western Australia. The airport is clearly visible from the Indian Pacific train, which services the Trans-Australian Railway.
- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: airport in Western Australia
- Also known as: “Forrest”, “FOS”, and “YFRT”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forrest.
Forrest
Hamlet
Forrest is a former small railway settlement and stopping place on the Nullarbor Plain, 85 kilometres west of the Western Australia / South Australia state border, established in 1916 during construction of the Trans-Australian Railway.
Forrest Airport
- Categories: airport and transportation
- Location: Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia, Australia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-30.8383° or 30° 50′ 18″ south
Longitude
128.11727° or 128° 7′ 2″ east
Elevation
160 metres (525 feet)
Operator
CIVIL
IATA airport code
FOS
ICAO airport code
YFRT
United Nations Location Code
AU FOS
Open location code
4QXC5468+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tajik—“Forrest Airport” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Forrest Airport (tugpahanan sa Awstralya)”
- Cebuano: “Forrest Airport”
- Chinese: “福雷斯特機場”
- French: “YFRT”
- Indonesian: “FOS”
- Indonesian: “YFRT”
- Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Forrest”
- Persian: “FOS”
- Persian: “YFRT”
- Persian: “فرودگاه فارست”
- Romanian: “Aeroportul Forrest”
- Swedish: “Forrest Airport”
- Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи форст”
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