Learmonth Airport (IATA: LEA, ICAO: YPLM) is a civil airport, co-located on the site of RAAF Base Learmonth, a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base.
Established in the 1940s as an airfield, the current airport is operated by the Shire of Exmouth under a lease from the Australian Government Department of Defence and occupies an area of 23.9 hectares (59 acres) on the RAAF Base Learmonth site.
[4] On 7 October 2008, Qantas Flight 72 made an emergency landing at RAAF Learmonth.
On 1 June 2012, an AirAsia X flight to Perth made an emergency landing at Learmonth Airport for refuelling.
[6] Learmonth Airport was ranked 49th in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2012–2013.