Tyabb Airport
regional airport in Victoria, Australia
Tyabb Airport (ICAO: YTYA), also called Tyabb Airfield, is a small regional airport located just west of the town of Tyabb, Victoria on the Mornington Peninsula.
Peninsula Aero Club use various different aircraft to train their student pilots, Aeroprakt A22-LS Foxbat, Cessna 152, Cessna 172, Beechcraft Sierra, American Champion Decathlon, Beechcraft Travel Air, and Partenavia P68B.
The airport is the site of the Tyabb Air Show, which is held every two years.
As of 2024, it was also the home base of a number of World War II-era warbirds, including an ex-USAAF Curtis P-40 Kittyhawk and an Australian-built ex-RAAF CA-18 Mustang.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tyabb Airport” as regional airport in Victoria, Australia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as regional airport in Victoria, Australia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16902197. Authority coordinates are -38.267, 145.179. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024.
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