Lawas Airport | |
Nativename: | Lapangan Terbang Lawas |
Iata: | LWY |
Icao: | WBGW |
Type: | Public |
Owner: | Government of Malaysia |
Operator: | Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad |
City-Served: | Lawas |
Location: | Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia |
Timezone: | MST |
Elevation-F: | 5 |
Coordinates: | 4.8492°N 115.4028°W |
Pushpin Map: | Malaysia East |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in East Malaysia |
Pushpin Label: | WBGW |
Metric-Rwy: | y |
R1-Number: | 01/19 |
R1-Length-M: | 686 |
R1-Surface: | Bitumen |
Footnotes: | Source: AIP Malaysia[1] |
Lawas Airport 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.