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Juanda International Airport serves Surabaya and its surrounding metropolitan area from a joint military-civil site at Sedati in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java. Home to a single long, lit, ILS-equipped runway and a mix of naval, air force and civil operations, it is one of Indonesia's busiest airports and a significant hub for domestic and international carriers, making it a notable destination for a VFR sim pilot exploring East Java.
Juanda International Airport (ICAO: WARR, IATA: SUB) lies at Sedati in Sidoarjo Regency, serving the city of Surabaya and its wider metropolitan area some 12 kilometres away. It is a joint-use aerodrome, sharing its single runway and surrounding land with Naval Air Station Juanda and Muljono Air Force Base, while the passenger terminals are run commercially as a civil enclave. For a simulator pilot it offers an interesting mix of heavy scheduled jet traffic, military movements and a long ILS-served runway on Java's north coast.
The airfield sits in Sedati District, Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, at coordinates 7.3808 S, 112.786 E and an elevation of 7 feet. It is operated jointly with the Indonesian Navy, whose Naval Aviation Center (Puspenerbal) is headquartered here, and the Indonesian Air Force, which maintains Muljono Air Force Base on the same site. Surabaya Control and Surabaya Director provide traffic and approach services to arriving and departing aircraft in the surrounding airspace.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 10/28, orientated east-west. It is 9,820 feet long, has a hard surface, and is lit for night operations. Runway 10 is equipped with an ILS, while runway 28 has no published instrument approach aid.
Radio services are extensive given the airport's traffic levels. ATIS broadcasts on 128.2 MHz. Surabaya Director operates on 123.2 MHz (secondary) and 125.1 MHz (primary). Ground Control works on 118.9 MHz. Surabaya Control, providing the terminal control area service, is available on 123.55 MHz (primary) and 124 MHz (secondary). Tower operates on 118.3 MHz (primary) and 118.1 MHz (secondary). Runway 10 is served by an ILS for instrument approaches.
The airport takes its name from Djuanda Kartawidjaja, the last Prime Minister of Indonesia, who had proposed its development. Before Juanda existed, Surabaya's civil aviation was based first at Darmo Airfield, built in the early 1920s and operated by KNILM under Dutch colonial administration, and later at Morokrembangan Naval Air Base near the Port of Tanjung Perak, a facility dating from 1922 that had served the Netherlands Naval Aviation Service before also taking on civil passenger flights. As Morokrembangan became congested and unable to expand due to its limited land and proximity to the city, the Indonesian Navy sought a new site in the early 1960s to support Operation Trikora, the campaign to reclaim Western New Guinea. After surveying Gresik, Raci and Sedati, the Navy chose Sedati for its flat, expansive terrain and proximity to Surabaya. The resulting airbase, built under Project Waru, was Indonesia's first airfield constructed from scratch since independence, rather than inherited and upgraded from the Dutch era. Juanda officially opened on 7 February 1964. Civil management passed to Angkasa Pura I on 1 January 1985, and the airport was formally designated international on 24 December 1990 with the opening of its international terminal. A further terminal, built on the southern side of the airfield across the runway on the site of the former terminal, began operating on 14 February 2014 and was designated Terminal 2, with the original facility becoming Terminal 1.
Juanda International Airport remains a joint-use facility, with the land owned by the Indonesian Navy and commercial operations run by InJourney Airports (formerly Angkasa Pura I). It functions as a hub for Batik Air and Citilink, a focus city for Garuda Indonesia, and an operating base for Lion Air and Super Air Jet alongside Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta. It is Indonesia's third-busiest airport after Jakarta and Denpasar, and in 2019 handled around 500 aircraft movements per day. The airfield continues to share its runway and airspace with the Indonesian Navy's Naval Aviation Center and the Indonesian Air Force's Muljono Air Force Base.