Lawas Airport

Lawas Airport
Lapangan Terbang Lawas

MASWings Twin Otter on the Lawas runway
IATA: LWY – ICAO: WBGW
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Government of Malaysia
Operator Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
Serves Lawas
Location Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia
Time zone MST (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL 5 ft / 2 m
Coordinates 04°50′57″N 115°24′10″E / 4.84917°N 115.40278°E / 4.84917; 115.40278Coordinates: 04°50′57″N 115°24′10″E / 4.84917°N 115.40278°E / 4.84917; 115.40278
Map
WBGW

Location in East Malaysia

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 686 2,251 Bitumen
Source: AIP Malaysia[1]

Lawas Airport (IATA: LWY, ICAO: WBGW)[2] is a Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) airport serving Lawas, a town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

A plan has been made to relocate the current airport to a new site, because the current site is considered unsafe. The airport is located near a river, and some land corrosion had been spotted along the riverbank. The proposed new airport will be able to accommodate ATR 72-500 aircraft operated by MASwings, and the airport will not only be used by people in Lawas, but also people near the surrounding Sarawak-Sabah border.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Malaysia Airlines
operated by MASwings 		Ba'kelalan, Kota Kinabalu, Limbang, Miri

See also

References

  1. ↑ AIP Malaysia: Index to Aerodromes at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
  2. ↑ Airport information for LWY at Great Circle Mapper.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lawas Airport.


This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.