ICAO: YSSY
Sydney Airport is one of the very first airports to be built in the world. First established in 1919 as a intriguing superb legacy. The reason being is that a lot of it is
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The airport was renamed Kingsford-Smith Airport in 1936 after the famous Australian pilot Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith. These days the airport markets itself as just SYD.
SYD built it’s third runway, completed in 1994, to accommodate more passengers and aircraft to accommodate the growing amount of tourists up to the 2000 Olympics. However there were mass scale protests that occupied most of the area. This led to a curfew that restricts flight operations to and from SYD from 6:00am until 11:00pm each day.
Our favourite plane-spotting location is “Sheps Mound”, a purpose built area near the control tower for people to park and watch aircraft come and go. I have HEAPS of photos on my Instagram from this location.
Other nearby plane-spotting locations are
- “The Beach”, which is on the southern side of the airport
- Near (or even in) IKEA on Princes Highway in Tempe
- The nearby Rydges Hotel for an elevated view
- The end of runway 07 when the rare occasions the wind blows from the west.