Kai Tak Airport was the international airport of Hong Kong from 1925 until 1998.
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12 Facts About Kai Tak
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Kai Tak was located on the east side of Kowloon Bay in Kowloon, Hong Kong.
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Story of Kai Tak started in 1912 when two businessmen, Ho Kai and Au Tak, formed the Kai Tak Investment Company to reclaim land in Kowloon for development.
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In 1955 Kai Tak Airport featured in the film The Night My Number Came Up.
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Richard Siegel, then-director of civil aviation, gave a brief speech ending with the words "Goodbye Kai Tak, and thank you", before dimming the lights briefly and then turning them off.
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Until its retirement in 2018, the name Kai Tak was one of the names used in the lists of tropical cyclone names in the northwest Pacific Ocean.
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Kai Tak airport consisted of a linear passenger terminal building with a car park attached at the rear.
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Landing approach for planes using runway 13 at Kai Tak was considered spectacular and was infamous, not just amongst aviation enthusiasts but amongst the general public as well.
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Alongside the Chequerboard approach, there was a lesser known approach into Kai Tak that led aircraft over the Stonecutters' NDB at a heading of 040 and led into a ~90° turn to line up on Runway 13.
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Club moved most of its aircraft to Shek Kong Airfield in 1994 after the hours for general aviation at Kai Tak were sharply reduced, to two hours per morning, as of 1 July that year.
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Government set up a "Kai Tak Planning Review" in July 2004 for further public consultation.
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New Kai Tak blueprint was presented to the Legislative Council on 24 October 2006 after review by the Town Planning Board.
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