Seletar Airport guide

Seletar Airport is a small airport in the north-east of Singapore island, about 16 km from the city centre. It began as the Royal Air Force station RAF Seletar in 1928. Civilian flights used the field from 1930 to 1937, and the base passed to Singapore in 1971. Changi Airport Group has managed the civil airport since 1 July 2009.

The airport has one asphalt runway, 03/21, extended to 1,840 m in 2011. It suits turboprops, business jets and aircraft up to about Boeing 757 size. Most traffic is general and business aviation, plus maintenance work for the aerospace firms around it. Seletar is the hub of the Seletar Aerospace Park, a government plan to grow Singapore's aerospace industry.

A passenger terminal opened on 19 November 2018. It is a compact building with four check-in counters, six immigration lanes, two security screening stations and a gate holdroom for about 200 passengers. A separate lounge serves charter and private-jet travellers. Firefly, a Malaysia Airlines subsidiary, is the scheduled carrier and flies to Kuala Lumpur Subang. It resumed the route on 13 June 2022 after a pandemic suspension. Changi Airport is about 16 km away, and most international travellers use it instead.