| Mount Hotham Airport | |
| Iata: | MHU |
| Icao: | YHOT |
| Type: | Private |
| Owner: | Grollo family |
| Operator: | MHSC Transportation Services Pty Ltd |
| City-Served: | Mount Hotham |
| Location: | Dinner Plain, Victoria, Australia |
| Elevation-F: | 4,260 |
| Coordinates: | -37.0475°N 147.3342°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Australia Victoria |
| Pushpin Label: | YHOT |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Victoria |
| Metric-Rwy: | Y |
| R1-Number: | 11/29 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1,460 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Footnotes: | Sources: Australian AIP and aerodrome chart[1] |
Mount Hotham Airport is a small Australian regional airport, which serves the Victorian ski resort of Mount Hotham. It is Australia's highest-altitude airport.
Developed by BCR Asset Management, construction of Month Hotham Airport began in late 1998. The airport opened on 12 June 1999 with a 700 metre runway.[2] It was officially opened by Premier Steve Bracks on 10 June 2000 by which time the runway had been extended to 1,460 metres.[3] [4]
During the 2000 ski season, Eastern Australia Airlines and Southern Australia Airlines operated flights from Sydney and Melbourne respectively with Dash 8s[5] During the 2001 season Eastern Australia, Southern Australia Airlines and Sunstate Airlines operated flights from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Newcastle.[6]
Until 2014, QantasLink operated flights from Sydney with Bombardier Q200s.[7] [8] [9] As at 2024, it is only used by charter operators.[10]
In January 2023, the airport was purchased by the Grollo family.[11]
On 8 July 2005, a Piper PA-31-350 Navajo Chieftain charter plane crashed into terrain while attempting to make a landing at the airport, killing the pilot and two passengers. Fragments of the aircraft were said to have dropped on the ground at the nearby sub-alpine community of Cobungra.[12]