<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Puerto Princesa International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was built by American prisoners of war during the World War II from August 1942 to September 1944. It was used to accommodate large Japanese transport aircraft to complement the grass airstrip south of the present-day location of NCCC Mall Palawan in Lacao Street. The airstrip was constructed by hand by the POWs using crushed corals for illuminating night landings. The finished airfield has an area of 2,195 by 206 meters (7,200 by 675 ft) with two runways.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On December 14, 1944, occupying Japanese soldiers herded 150 remaining American POWs that constructed the airstrip into air raid trenches, doused them with gasoline, set them afire, then machine-gunned and bayoneted them to death. Among them was Army Capt. Fred Bruni, the Palawan POWs&rsquo; senior officer, who was from Janesville, Wisconsin with the 192nd Tank Battalion. Only eleven men escaped the Palawan massacre to be rescued by guerrillas. The story of their ordeal persuaded General Douglas MacArthur that the rumored order for the retreating Japanese to &ldquo;kill all&rdquo; prisoners was being implemented, thus his rush to liberate the Philippines.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Imperial Japanese Army Air Force units based at this airstrip included the 71st Sentai Squadron (September 1944 &ndash; Early 1945).</p>
<p class="blog-para">To meet the growing air transportation demands of Puerto Princesa and the province of Palawan, in 2014, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) awarded a $82.9-million (₱2.616 billion) contract to the joint venture of Kumho Industrial Co. Ltd. and GS Engineering &amp; Construction for the construction of new passenger terminal and cargo terminal building, a new apron, connecting taxiways, new state-of-the-art air navigation system, and other support facilities in compliance with the international civil aviation standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). The new terminal was officially inaugurated on May 3, 2017 and opened for commercial operations on the next day.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Runway Puerto Princesa International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport consists of a single 2,600-meter-long (8,500 ft) and 45-meter-wide (148 ft) runway running at a direction of 09&deg;/27&deg;. The airport shares its single runway with Antonio Bautista Air Base. The runway is equipped with an instrument landing system, runway lights, and approach landing lights making the airport capable of nighttime operations as well as low visibility landings.</p>
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