Kudat Airport

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The Kudat Airport ( engl. Kudat Airport, IATA: KUD, ICAO: WBKT ) is the airport of the city of Kudat, in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo.

The airport is a domestic airport for civil purposes. It counts because of its extremely short take-off and landing runway of only 730 m to the so-called STOL Airports ( Short Take- Off and Landing Airports). It is therefore to be served only by the small planes of the MASwings. Flights Malaysia Airlines are handled as a codeshare. Connections exist to and from Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.

History

During the Second World War put the Japanese Army in Kudat on an airfield. The labor force - consisting of locals and forced laborers from Java, Indonesia - Coral used as base course for the runway. Many Indonesians died during the construction of disease and hunger. 1945 B25 bomber attacked the United States Far East Air Force on several occasions at the airfield and made it unusable. Today, operated by Malaysia Airport Berhad airport was partly built on the ruins of the former Japanese airfield.