Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III Airport

Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III Airport

Bandar Udara Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerWest Nusa Tenggara provincial government
OperatorUPT Director General of Transportation
ServesSumbawa Besar
LocationSumbawa Besar, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Time zoneWITA (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL19 ft / 5.79 m
Coordinates08°29′19″S 117°24′51.01″E / 8.48861°S 117.4141694°E / -8.48861; 117.4141694
Map
SWQ
Location of the airport in Indonesia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
14/32 5,413 1,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2024)
Passengers61986

Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin Airport (IATA: SWQ, ICAO: WADS), formerly Brang Bidji Airport, is located in Sumbawa Besar, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. It is one of the only two airports in the island of Sumbawa, the other being Sultan Muhammad Salahudin Airport in Bima. The airport is named after Sultan Muhammad Kaharuddin III, the last sultan of the Sultanate of Sumbawa.

Currently, the airport serves for daily flights to Lombok and denpasar. two arriving and two departing, each operated by Wings Air, at 2024

and both using the ATR-72 aircraft.

In 2015, 77,365 passengers used the airport, and in 2017 this increased to 112,096, after cobid 19 in 2024 passengers used the airport 61,986