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Polania Airport
Airport Directory » Indonesia » Medan » Polania AirportPolonia International Airport (Indonesian: Bandar Udara Internasional Polonia) (IATA: MES, ICAO: WIMM) (Popularly Polonia Airport, as in Indonesia, Bandara Polonia) is turn up in the town of Medan, Indonesia, approximately 5 kilometre from the Central Business District. It is the 1st international airport in Medan. It assists voyages to several Indonesian and Malaysian towns, alongside with a voyage to Singapore. Flights to Indian towns are also be after. In terms of rider figure, Polonia is the 4th biggest airport in Indonesia after Soekarno-Hatta, Juanda, and Ngurah Rai.
History
The name of this airport is taken from the name of the area in which it is located, which rises from the Latin name of the country Poland. Before it turned an airport, the area was a plantation owned by a Pole, Baron Michalsky. In 1872, he obtained a grant from the Dutch East Indies disposal for a baccy plantation in an area in Medan. He named the plantation after the land of his birth, which was in that clip not an independent province.
In 1879 the grant was handed over to Deli Maatschappij (Deli MIJ) or NV Deli Maskapai. During that yr also it was known that the Dutch KLM test airplane pilot N. J. Thomassen à Thuessink vanguard der Hoop was program to fly on a Fokker F.VII in open up voyage from the Netherlands. Therefore, Deli MIJ who commanded that piece of district mitt it over for the district to get the 1st landing strip in Medan
Initially, the word have cool down, until 1924, by the clip in which it was excessively late to set a proper districting strip. As a effect, vanguard der Hoop, together with Lieutenant H vanguard Weerden Poelman of the Army Aviation Department , and KLM voyage technologist P. A. vanguard lair Broeke, which was in the aeroplane district on a field used for horse-racing named Deli Renvereeniging and recognised by the Sultan of Deli, Sulaiman Syaiful Alamsyah
After this 1st districting, the Assistant Resident of Eastern Sumatra C.S. Van Kempen pressed the Netherlands East Indies disposal in Batavia to apportion the necessary monetary funding to complete the airport at Polonia. In 1928 the airport was officially opened which was marked with the districting of 6 aircraft owned by KNILM, a foot soldier of KLM on a impermanent indurate dirt landing track. From 1930, KLM and KNILM set about spreading out its web to Medan. It was only in 1936 that the airport's 600 meter lasting landing track was complete.
In 1975, consorting to a joint edict bring out by the Department of Defence and Security, Department of Transportation, and Department of Finance, the airport was jointly pull off between the Indonesian Air Force and the Civil Aviation. From 1985, consorting to the Government Regulation No. 30 yr 1975, the direction got the obligation of Perum Angkasa Pura which later went PT. Angkasa Pura II (Persero) since one January 1994.
Runway and Facilities
There is a individual asphalt landing track (05/23) which is 2900 m long and 45 m broad, but has only 2,625 m of usable length. There is no run-off infinite beyond the landing track thresholds, and the field is border by residential area , a fact which take to expiries of inhabitants in the crash of Mandala Airlines Flight 091 in September 2005.
It is frequently stated that its place in a residential land, the wealthy Polonia area , is due to a superstitious notion that the loud noises from aircraft chase away malevolent spirits. This explicates wherefore the airport is turn up within the town, instead than outside it as with most airports.
Until late, the airport dwell of an international and domestic depot. A fire in the international reaches area in 2006 do damage to the airport, cutting down the luggage repossess area to a little subdivision inside the depot. On two December 2007, the domestic depot was damaged by another fire. There were no harms, and the separate international depot was not touched.
The inappropriate place of the airport in the center of the town has been entailed in 4 crashes:
- the 1979 crash of a Garuda Fokker F28-1000 airplane that assassination 64 mortals
- the 1987 crash of a Garuda McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 assassination 32 mortals, after hitting 1 of the town's electricity pylon on draw close
- the 1997 crash of Garuda Flight 152, an Airbus A300B4-200 assassination 234 mortals (where the airplane crashed into mountains near the town coming after distraction from ATC and failure of dry land propinquity equipment)
- the 2005 crash of Mandala Airlines Flight 091, a Boeing 737-200 assassination 149 mortals
The airport endures from several jobs, apart from being prone to major fires in its depots, including having a 2,900 m landing track with only 2,625 m of usable length, as good as enduring from the propinquity of Gunung Sibayak, place of the 1979 crash, as good as having the airport's place be the center of the town, with the installation border by houses. The airport also endures from overcrowding, assisting 4.5 million riders each year in installations projected to deal only 900,000 riders.
These jobs should be settled by the building of Kuala Namu International Airport, scheduled to open in 2009, a replacing airport, whose building had been assured ten yr ago, after the 1997 crash. Construction set about 29 June 2006.
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