Lawas Airport Lapangan Terbang Lawas | |||||||||||
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 MASWings Twin Otter on the Lawas runway | |||||||||||
| 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″N115°24′10″E / 4.84917°N 115.40278°E /4.84917; 115.40278 | ||||||||||
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  WBGW Location in East Malaysia | |||||||||||
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Lawas Airport (IATA:LWY,ICAO:WBGW)[3] is aShort Take-off and Landing (STOL) airport servingLawas, a town inLimbang 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 byMASwings, and the airport will not only be used by people in Lawas, but also people near the surrounding Sarawak-Sabah border.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| MASwings | Ba'kelalan,Kota Kinabalu,Limbang,Miri |
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