Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport
Sultan Iskandar Muda International Airport After being hit by a devastating tsunami on 26 December 2004, the airport underwent renovation and a 3000-meter runway for wide-body jet liners was built. On 9 October 2011 the 1st Boeing 747-400 took off and landed successfully. This airport can act as a place of refuge in case of natural disasters, such as the Earthquake that hit Aceh on 11 April 2012. The airport was also used as a staging ground for international emergency aid in response to the Tsunami in Aceh. Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport was built by the Japanese Government in 1943. At that time, the airport has a runway 1400 meters long and 30 meters wide in the form of the letter T from the South end lengthwise from east to west. In 1953 the Sultan Iskandar Muda Airport reopened by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia for the purpose of landing the plane. Runway used only runway stretching from South to North 1400 meters in length. At that time the 1st plane landed is Dakota ...