Sultan Ismail Petra Airport

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (1 May 2017)


Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (GPS: 6.16986, 102.29475) is the airport serving Kota Bharu, Kelantan. It is located in Pengkalan Chepa, about 8.2km to the northeast of the city. The airport was named after the 28th Sultan of Kelantan, who reigned from 1979 to 2010. The present terminal building was completed in September 2002. The site was a former RAF station which was converted to civilian use after the Second World War. For a while, it was called the Pengkalan Chepa Airport.

The present terminal of Sultan Ismail Petra Airport was built at a cost of RM55 million. Elements of Moorish architecture were incorporated into the design. The terminal building has a floor area of 12,000 square metres and has three aerobridges which were repurposed from the old Subang Airport.

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport is presently served by AirAsia to Johor Bahru (Senai), Kota Kinabalu, KLIA, Kuching, Langkawi and Penang; Batik Air Malaysia to Subang, Firefly to Subang and Penang, and Malaysia Airlines to KLIA.

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport is on the Map of Kelantan

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (1 May 2017)


Airplane on display at Kota Bharu Airport (1 May 2017)


Kota Bharu Airport Control Tower (1 May 2017)


Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra Kelantan (1 May 2017)

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport on Google Street View

Sultan Ismail Petra Airport (Jul 2018)

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