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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; 115.40278
Map
WBGWLocation in East Malaysia
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 01/19 758 2,487 Bitumen
Source: AIP Malaysia

Lawas Airport (IATA: LWY, ICAO: WBGW) 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

Incidents and Accidents

• On 24 August 2011, a MASwings aircraft Twin Otter DHC6 broke off its front landing gear upon landing. All 16 passengers and two crew escaped unharmed in the incident.

See also

• List of airports in Malaysia

References

1. AIP Malaysia: Index to Aerodromes at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
2. "AIRPORTS IN SARAWAK". Ministry of Transport Sarawak (MOTS). Retrieved 26 October 2024.
3. Airport information for LWY at Great Circle Mapper.
4. "18 survive crash-landing in Lawas". The Borneo Post. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2017.

External links

• Short Take-Off and Landing Airports (STOL) at Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
• Accident history for LWY at Aviation Safety Network

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