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Kallang Airport got its name from the nearby Kallang Basin, which was named after a group of sea-gypsies living around the area in the 1800s. [10]On 11 February 1930, the Dutch Airline KLM operated the first service flight between Amsterdam and Batavia (now Jakarta), landing at Seletar with a Dutch-made Fokker trimotor monoplane carrying 8 passengers and a cargo of fresh fruit, flowers and mail.
Today, legacies of the old Kallang Airport remain. Roads such as Old Airport Road (named as such because it was the eastern boundary of the Kallang Airport), [133] Kallang Airport Drive, Kallang Airport Way and Old Terminal Lane bear reference to the Kallang Airport. A signboard with the words "Kallang Airport" is standing at the junction of ...
Following a stopover at Jakarta, Indonesia, it crashed while landing at Kallang Airport. [2] Captain Trevor Hoyle was the pilot. [3] The aircraft was a Lockheed L-749A Constellation, a low-wing monoplane airliner with four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engines. It had first flown in the United States in 1947.
Kampong Bugis is probably best known for being the location of the former Kallang Gasworks, the conserved Kallang Airport complex, as well as the former Gay World Amusement Park. A plot of land bounded by Kallang Road, the Kallang River and Rochor River is slated for future residential development, part of a pilot programme to create a car-lite ...
Old Airport Road (Chinese: 旧机场路) is a two-way road in Singapore, connecting Dunman Road in the east to the junction with Stadium Boulevard and Mountbatten Road in the west. As its name implies, the road was the eastern boundary of the former Kallang Airport , the first purpose-built civil airport in Singapore.
Dakota MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle line in Geylang planning area, Singapore, next to Geylang River.. Located along Old Airport Road between the junctions of Jalan Dua and Dakota Crescent, Dakota station took its name from the Dakota DC-3 aircraft that used to frequently land at the former Kallang Airport.
Wearne's Air Service (WAS), established in 1937, was an early Malayan airline. Based in Kallang Airport, Singapore, it emerged as one of the earliest airlines in the region.
Kallang Park was so named because it was built on the site of the former Kallang Airport runway, on the eastern bank of the Kallang Basin. The area is now part of the Kallang planning area. Its Chinese name "劳动公园", however, translates to "labour park". Its Malay name "Taman Kallang" is a translation based on the English version. [2]