Sultan Ismail Petra Airport

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra
Boarding Gate view of Sultan Ismail Petra Airport
IATA: KBR ICAO: WMKC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Government of Malaysia
Operator	Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
Serves	Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
Location	Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan, Malaysia
Time zone	MST (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL	16 ft / 5 m
Coordinates	06°09′58″N 102°17′33″E / 6.16611°N 102.29250°E / 6.16611; 102.29250Coordinates: 06°09′58″N 102°17′33″E / 6.16611°N 102.29250°E / 6.16611; 102.29250
Map
WMKC Location on the east coast of Malaysia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,400 7,874 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passenger 2,063,747 ( 14.6%) Airfreight (tonnes) 1,003 ( 152.5%) Aircraft movements 42,810 ( 4.1%)
Sources: official website AIP Malaysia

Passenger	2,063,747 ( 14.6%)
Airfreight (tonnes)	1,003 ( 152.5%)
Aircraft movements	42,810 ( 4.1%)

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (IATA: KBR, ICAO: WMKC) is an airport that operates in Kota Bharu, a city in the state of Kelantan in Malaysia. The airport is named after Ismail Petra of Kelantan, the thirteenth Sultan of Kelantan, who ruled from 1980 to 2010. The present new terminal was officially opened in September 2002. The 12,000 m² airport terminal has three aircraft stands, three aerobridges and is able to handle maximum capacity 1.45 million passengers. The three aerobridges were salvaged from the old Subang Airport and refurbished. The airport consists of 9 check-in counters and offers flights between a total of seven domestic destinations from Malaysia Airlines, AirAsia, Firefly and Malindo Air. In 2014, this made it the busiest airport in the East Coast and 9th by passenger traffic with 1,800,836 passengers.

The airport is a former RAF Station, RAF Kota Bharu being a former British military airfield was the landing site of the Japanese invasion of Malaya during World War II. The scene of the first Japanese landing in Malaya on 8 December 1941.

After the war, the RAF military airfield was turned into a civilian airport. The passenger terminal was built and was known as Pengkalan Chepa Airport. After the terminal was expanded and a new building was built, it became known as Sultan Ismail Petra Airport, currently known as the old terminal of the Asia Pacific Flight Training flying school. In 1999, the government announced that the Sultan Ismail Petra Airport will be relocated to a new terminal building. The project started in September 2000 and was completed in June 2002 with a total cost of approximately RM55 million.