Comments on: What is the biggest aircraft to land at Essendon Airport? https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/ Marcus Wong. Gunzel. Engineering geek. History nerd. Sat, 02 Jul 2022 07:36:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: James Govett https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-839965 Sat, 02 Jul 2022 07:36:45 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-839965 I flew out of Essendon airport in the 1960’s until the last flight in 1970 on both Boeing 727’s of Ansett and TAA to visit family in Perth WA when a young bloke and remember that the Boeings did not have a direct flight to Perth and had to land at Adelaide and we changed aircraft to complete the trip and I remember being told at the time that due to Essendon short runways the Boeings could not take off with a full load of passengers freight and fuel for the non stop trip to Western Australia and that had to wait until the new Tullamarine Airport opened, we also took off from Essendon DC-9’s and changed at Adelaide to Boeings also

]]> By: Pilots confusing Essendon Airport for Melbourne Airport - Waking up in Geelong https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-795720 Mon, 08 Nov 2021 20:34:39 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-795720 […] largest aircraft ever to land at Essendon Airport were a handful of Boeing 707s back in the 1960s – I’d hate to see what would happen to a Boeing 747 that tried to do the […]

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-790793 Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:23:40 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-790793 In reply to Paul O’Connor.

When researching my upcoming “Pilots confusing Essendon Airport for Melbourne Airport” post I found a reference to a DC-10 trying to land at Essendon in the 1970s, but being warned away at the last minute.

]]> By: Marcus Wong https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-790792 Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:19:52 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-790792 In reply to Andrew.

Thanks for that link – I’ve actually got a pending post on pilots mistaking Essendon Airport for Melbourne Airport, and that list has a few incidents I hadn’t found.

]]> By: Andrew https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-790720 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 22:03:39 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-790720 I have in mind that there has been at least one large passenger aircraft land at Essendon having mistook it for Tullamarine. But I could be misremembering it.

There have certainly been a number of planes that tried to land at Essendon – the largest being a Garuda 747 in 1985. These are all listed here:

https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22chamber/hansardr/1998-03-03/0085%22

The Garuda 747 was the subject of an accident investigation which can found online.

]]> By: Paul O'Connor https://wongm.com/2021/10/what-is-the-biggest-aircraft-to-land-at-essendon-airport/#comment-790715 Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:09:34 +0000 https://wongm.com/?p=18752#comment-790715 Marcus, I don’t think your story takes into consideration that a DC10 landed there by mistake in the 80’s

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