Adisutijpto International Airport Yogyakarta

Posted on February 15th, 2009 in tourism news Adisutijpto International Airport Yogyakarta

Adisutijpto International Airport Yogyakarta – If you want to visit yogyakarta and choose air transportation, Adisutijpto international airport will be the first place that you visit. This airport was operating for 50 years already and serves the international flight such as Singapore and Malaysia, and domestic flight, which is operate for several capital cities in Indonesia.

The airport width is about 88.690 m2 and keeps the happiness story thus the sadness. On the morning of july, 29th 1947, the Guntei and Curren plane was attack Holland in Semarang and Ambarawa, this plane was take-off and landing again in this airport. Still in same day, Dakota VT-CLA, the Indonesian plane that fired by two of P-40 Kitty Hawk, the Holland hunter plane, few minutes before landing in the afternoon.

The names of this airport changed from Maguwo airport to Adisutjipto, several years before Dakota VT-CLA accident. The name of Adisutjipto taken from the young commodore that names Adisutjipto, the plane crew that passed away on that accident. He is the air force crew that assigned to India and takes the medicine aid in Singapore. It is not only Adisutjipto, the other crew that passed away are Abdurrahman Saleh and Adi Sumarmo. Both of the names are enshrined as the name of the airport.