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Kokura Kūkō, previously called Kitakyūshū Kūkō until 2006, was a small airport in Kokura Minami-ku, Kitakyūshū, Japan.
There used to be four flights to and from Haneda Airport every day. The runway was long, so only mid-sized aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 could use this airport, albeit with a reduced payload.
It is now commonly referred to as Kokura, its location, to distinguish it from the New Kitakyushu Airport (renamed Kitakyushu Airport in 2008), an offshore airport built on a man-made island in Suo nada, the most westerly part of the Seto Inland Sea. The new airport opened in March 2006, taking over the old airport codes . The final scheduled flight from the airport was an MD-87 to Haneda Airport that departed before 8PM with the final flight was the MD-87 on a ferry flight to Itami Airport left before midnight of 16 March 2006.
As of 2013, the former airport is one of the potential sites for new JASDF facilities as part of an ongoing defense buildup.
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