Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport Lapangan Terbang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner/Operator | MASB/Government of Malaysia | ||||||||||
Serves | Greater Kuala Lumpur | ||||||||||
Location | Subang, Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia | ||||||||||
Opened | 30 August 1965 | ||||||||||
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Focus city for | Berjaya Air | ||||||||||
Time zone | MST (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 27 m / 89 ft | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 03°07′52″N 101°32′53″E / 3.13111°N 101.54806°E | ||||||||||
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Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport (IATA: SZB, ICAO: WMSA) — formerly Subang International Airport/Kuala Lumpur International Airport, often called Subang Airport — is an airport located in Subang, Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia.
Subang International Airport served as Kuala Lumpur's main airport from 1965 to 1998, before the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang was opened. Although plans existed to convert the airport into a low-cost carrier base, the change was opposed by Subang Jaya residents. The airport was repurposed to serve general aviation as well as turboprop domestic and international flights. In 1996, the airport was renamed after Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj (Salahuddin of Selangor), the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and eighth Sultan of Selangor.
Subang Airport is currently the base for SKS Airways and Firefly commercial turboprop services. Raya Airways is the only other non-passenger non-turbo prop aircraft landing and utilising Subang Airport Terminal 2. While heavily opposed by Ara Damansara residents of the noise of the jet engines, Raya Airways still operates out of SZB servicing DHL and other local hubs.