Mount Hotham Airport

Mount Hotham Airport (IATA: MHU, ICAO: YHOT) is a small Australian regional airport, which serves the Victorian ski resort of Mount Hotham.

Developed by BCR Asset Management, construction of Month Hotham Airport began in late 1998.

[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.

[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.