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Melbourne Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Melbourne Airport (IATA: MEL, ICAO: YMML) is located to the north of the city, adjacent to the suburb of Tullamarine, Victoria, Australia. |
 | | The airport was built to replace the nearby, outdated Essendon Airport, which did not have runways or terminals able to accommodate large aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 which began to appear in the late 1960s. |
 | | A number of Australian airports were privatised in 1997 including Melbourne Airport which was leased to the Australia Pacific Airports Corporation, a company largely owned by a group of infrastructure investment funds, for a period of fifty years. |
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