Sittwe Airport


Sittwe Airport is an airport in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. In Burmese it is known as စစ်တွေ လေဆိပ်.
It started as Royal Air Force station RAF Akyab, a military airfield in World War II. It was handed over to Department of Civil Aviation by International Aero Limited Company on 24 July 1947. It was upgraded to long and wide gravel mixed asphalt runway in 1960. The airport building was extended to from and it was opened on 22 March 2002. 4 feet thick asphalt concrete layer was placed on the runway, the taxiway and the apron and opened on 20 May 2009 for use of F-28 jets.
It is equipped with HF, VHF, NDB, Night Landing Facilities such as airfield lighting, approach light and remote control air ground machines. It admits over 90,000 passengers in 2010-11 and it is expected to accommodate 150,000 passengers for arrival and departure yearly.
In early 2024 it was reported that conscription-age passengers arriving at this airport were interrogated by members of the Tatmadaw, with some being taken to a nearby military base to begin their period of conscripted service in the forces of the military junta due to the country's civil war.

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