Western Sydney Airport has had its first landing five years ahead of schedule after a single engine plane made an emergency landing on the partially built dirt runway today. The plane was on a training flight out of Bankstown Airport when it developed engine trouble and had to put down. Work on the new $5.3 billion airport had to be stopped as the struggling plane glided in for an emergency landing on the flat dirt expanse being prepared for the airport's new runway. No one was injured but all work on the Nancy Bird Walton airport site stopped for the morning. Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman Peter Gibson said: "The first aircraft to land at the new Badgerys Creek Airport was in fact a single engine Piper Cherokee and not a Boeing 787 as expected."