Halim Perdanakusuma Airport
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Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport Bandar Udara Internasional Halim Perdanakusuma |
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| Airport type | Public Executive Training Military (Air Force) |
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| Operator | PT Angkasa Pura II | ||||||||||
| Location | East Jakarta, Jakarta | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 82 ft / 25 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 06°15′59″S 106°53′28″E / 6.26639°S 106.89111°ECoordinates: 06°15′59″S 106°53′28″E / 6.26639°S 106.89111°E | ||||||||||
| Website | http://www.halimperdanakusuma-airport.co.id/ | ||||||||||
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| Passengers | 3,059,153 |
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Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport (Indonesian: Bandar Udara Internasional Halim Perdanakusuma) (IATA: HLP, ICAO: WIHH) is located in East Jakarta in the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
Aside from commercial scheduled traffic, this airport is also used for military, private and presidential purposes. Government officials are also allowed to use it.Halim is the main airport used by corporate aviation with frequent arrivals and departures of corporate jet aircraft both domestically and internationally.
On January 10, 2014, Halim Perdanakusuma began to serve domestic scheduled commercial flights to ease the overloaded Soekarno–Hatta International Airport. Initially Citilink was the largest user, taking 32 slots from 74 slots available for all airlines a day.
This airport takes its name from Air Vice-Marshal Halim Perdanakusuma, an Indonesian aviator. The airport is now home to a large number of turboprop, charter and general aviation companies. It is also a major air force base of the Indonesian Air Force and is home to most of its major squadrons, such as the 31st Squadron and the 17th VIP Squadron.
In the 1960s, the airport was also known as the Halim Perdana Kusumah Air Force Base, and before it was known as Tjililitan Airport, the borough in which it is located.
As a civilian airport, Halim Perdanakusuma was one the city's main airports, along with Kemayoran Airport, until the opening of Soekarno–Hatta International Airport in Tangerang in 1985. Until then, it served all international routes bound for Jakarta, while Kemayoran handled domestic flights. The closure of Kemayoran in 1985 meant that Halim would serve as the secondary airport of Jakarta, mostly handling charter flights as well as general aviation and flying school base for the next 29 years. In the 1990s the Directorate General of Civil Aviation mandated that Halim would only serve non-scheduled flights, as well as scheduled flights with aircraft under 100 passengers capacity.
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