Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (IATA: KBR, ICAO: WMKC) is an airport that serves Kota Bharu, a city in the state of Kelantan in Malaysia.The new terminal was opened in September 2002. It is 12,000 m² airport terminal has three aircraft stands, three jet bridges and is able to handle 1.4 million passengers.This made it the busiest airport in the East Coast Malaysia by passenger traffic and aircraft traffic movement.The new terminal is equipped with facilities and services to cater to the increasing inflow of tourists to Kelantan. In 2010, the airport handled 1,047,000 passengers, with 75,906 commercial aircraft movements.[1]
This airport is a former RAF base, RAF Kota Bharu, the scene of the first Japanese landing in Malaya in 8 December 1941.
After the war, the RAF military airfield was turned into a civilian airport. The passenger terminal was built as know as Pengkalan Chepa Airport.After the terminal was expantion dan built up again a new building, it know as Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, currently known as the old terminal or Asia Pacific Flight Training flying school. In 1999 the government announced, Sultan Ismail Petra Airport relocates to a new terminal building. The project started in September 2000 and completed in June 2002 with a total cost of approximately RM55 million.
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