Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III Airport , formerly Brang Bidji Airport, is an airport located in

Sumbawa Besar Sumbawa Besar is a town on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, and is the second-biggest settlement on the island after Bima. It is the administrative capital of the Sumbawa Regency within the province of West Nusa Tenggara, and has a population of ...

, West Nusa Tenggara,

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. It is one of the only two airports in the island of Sumbawa, the other being

Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport Sultan Muhammad Salahuddin Airport , also known as Bima Airport, is an airport located approximately to the south of the city of Bima, on the island of Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. That airport was previously known as Palibelo Airport ...

in Bima. The airport is named after Sultan

Muhammad Kaharuddin III Muhammad Kaharuddin III (1902 – 8 November 1975) was an Indonesian politician and royal who was the 16th Sultan of Sumbawa, a senator of the United States of Indonesia, and the regent of Sumbawa Regency between 1959 and 1960. He was also activ ...

, the last sultan of the Sultanate of Sumbawa. Currently, the airport serves four daily flights to Lombok, two arriving and two departing, each operated by

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and

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, and both using the

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aircraft. In 2015, 77,365 passengers used the airport, and in 2017 this increased to 112,096, an increase of almost 50%.

Airport development

To improve economic growth and cope with the increasing passenger growth every year, the airport was renovated in 2016, both airside and landside. The work carried out was apron widening and taxiway construction including supervision, construction of inspection roads with asphalt concrete, airport fence rehabilitation, construction of new terminals including supervision and fulfillment of runway strip standards due to runway extension. In addition, the apron was expanded from 70 x 240 m to 80 x 240 m, expansion of parking area, addition of new fences, procurement and installation of runway RTIL, procurement and installation of apron and taxiway light due to apron expansion and manufacture of new taxiways, procurement and installation of flood double light pole. Currently the new terminal has an area of 2,790 m², four times wider than the old terminal which is only 840 m² in size. The arrival room also expanded from 96 m² to 480 m². While the waiting room is also expanded from 120 m² to 960 m². The new terminal has the typical architectural concept of the Sumbawa traditional house. The development of the airport was scheduled to be continued in 2019. Plans included the extension of the runway from 1650 mx 30 m to 1800 mx 30 m, including marking, preparation of runway strips and RESA as well as air side channels, canopy work and terminal building interiors, renovation work administration building, PKP-PK access road widening work, land side landscape work, procurement and installation of integrated lightning rods, procurement and installation of solar cell street lights, preparation of BKK, DLKR and DLKP studies and airport development supervision work.Dorong kegiatan ekonomi Sumbawa, Bandara Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin siap diresmikan
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Airlines and destinations

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