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Depati Amir Airport lies on the island of Bangka in Indonesia's Bangka-Belitung Islands province, serving the provincial capital of Pangkalpinang from a site in Central Bangka Regency a few kilometres outside the city. Originally built as a Japanese military airstrip during the Second World War, it has grown into the sole airport on Bangka Island and a domestic gateway named for the Bangka aristocrat and national hero Depati Amir.
Depati Amir Airport serves Pangkalpinang, the capital of Bangka-Belitung Islands province, and is the only airport on the island of Bangka. It began life as a wartime military airstrip and today operates as a domestic airport under InJourney Airports, offering connections to major Indonesian cities. For a visiting VFR pilot, it is a straightforward single-runway field with a long hard surface, notable chiefly for its wartime origins and its role as the sole air gateway to Bangka.
The airfield sits in Central Bangka Regency, approximately 5 km from the centre of Pangkalpinang, on the island of Bangka in the Bangka-Belitung Islands province. It is one of only two airports in the province, the other being H.A.S. Hanandjoeddin International Airport on the neighbouring island of Belitung.
The airfield has a single physical runway, 16/34, measuring 7,384 feet with a hard surface and runway lighting. There is no ILS.
No ILS approach is available at the field. Specific radio callsign and frequency information was not available in the sources consulted.
No specific joining, circuit height or noise abatement procedures were available in the sources consulted.
No published visual reference points were available in the sources consulted.
The airfield originated in 1942 as a Japanese military airstrip built following the occupation of Bangka during the Second World War, intended to support Japanese air operations and defend the island against Allied attack; bunkers and fortifications built around the site at the time survive in part today. After Indonesian independence the field entered civilian use and was known as Pangkalpinang Airfield, before its status was upgraded to that of an airport in 1985. In 1999 it was renamed Depati Amir Airport in honour of the Bangka aristocrat and national hero who resisted Dutch colonial rule and the exploitation of Bangka's tin resources during the nineteenth century. Management passed from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to Angkasa Pura II (since rebranded InJourney Airports) in 2007, and a new terminal on the opposite side of the runway from the original building was inaugurated in 2019, after which all operations moved there and the old terminal fell into disuse.
The airport functions as a domestic gateway to Pangkalpinang and Bangka Island, with scheduled services to cities including Jakarta, Batam, Palembang and Yogyakarta, and it serves as a focus city for Sriwijaya Air. There are stated plans to develop the field toward international status, targeted for 2026, alongside proposals for maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities. No information on fuel availability, operating hours, PPR requirements or flight simulator scenery was available in the sources consulted.