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Haluoleo Airport (ICAO WAWW, IATA KDI) is the domestic gateway to Kendari, capital of Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, located at Ranomeeto in South Konawe Regency some 15 km from the city centre. Built by the Dutch colonial authorities before the Second World War and fought over during the Japanese invasion of 1942, it remains a joint civil-military aerodrome hosting the Haluoleo Air Force Base alongside scheduled airline traffic.
Haluoleo Airport serves Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi province on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Operated under the Directorate General of Civil Aviation, the field is a joint-use facility that also houses the Haluoleo Air Force Base, a Type B installation of the Indonesian Air Force. For a simulator pilot it offers a single long hard-runway approach with ILS guidance into a field with a genuinely dramatic wartime history, having been fought over during the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies in early 1942.
The airport lies at Ranomeeto in South Konawe Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, approximately 15 km from Kendari's city centre. It is a public and military aerodrome under government ownership and control.
Haluoleo has a single physical runway, 08/26, 8208 feet long with a hard surface and lit for night operations. Runway 26 is equipped with an ILS for instrument approaches.
The tower callsign operates on 122.2 MHz. Runway 26 offers an ILS approach.
The airfield originated as a Dutch colonial military airbase, with the first aircraft, a Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force machine, landing there on 7 October 1938. On completion it was regarded as among the finest airfields in the Dutch East Indies, built with three runways and room for further expansion, along with barracks capable of housing 500 troops in anticipation of Allied reinforcement. With the outbreak of the Pacific War the airfield was designated Kendari Airfield II and defended by a small Dutch KNIL garrison of around 400 personnel, four armoured cars and a modest anti-aircraft battery, but with no fighter aircraft based there. Japanese naval Zero fighters strafed the airfield on 15 January 1942, and Japanese forces landed at Kendari on 24 January 1942; incomplete Dutch demolition efforts failed to deny the site, and it fell within hours, with Japanese aircraft landing the same day. Under Japanese occupation the airfield was developed further using forced labour and became a key regional air defence base, with additional anti-aircraft guns deployed by January 1944. The airfield opened to civilian traffic on 1 April 1976 as Wolter Monginsidi Airport, named for the Indonesian national hero executed by the Dutch during the independence revolution. It was renamed Haluoleo Airport, after the sixth sultan of the Buton Sultanate, with the change formally adopted on 13 February 2010.
Haluoleo Airport continues to combine civil and military use, remaining home to the Haluoleo Air Force Base alongside its role as the principal domestic gateway for Kendari and Southeast Sulawesi province. It is being developed as a secondary transit hub for flights across eastern Indonesia, intended as an alternative to the more congested Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport at Makassar, and handles scheduled services to major Indonesian cities as well as regional connections within the province.