The site of the old Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport – famous for its notoriously challenging runway in the middle of the busy city center – is set to welcome a new sky-high landmark.

It’s been 25 years since Hong Kong’s Kai Tak airport closed. Pilot Russell Davie and photographer Daryl Chapman remember the glory days and share a few of the scariest moments.

The old Hong Kong International Airport operated from 1925 until 1998, before being closed and renamed Kai Tak Airport when the new Hong Kong International Airport opened.

For anyone arriving into Hong Kong before the summer of 1998, the Kai Tak airport was a taster of "Asia's world city" before you had even touched down.

The Kai Tak Airport, better known as Hong Kong International, dutifully served the island city for nearly three quarters of a century before shutting down in 1998. But rather than let that prime ...

Kai Tak's last flight – the ceremonial and symbolic departure of a Cathay Pacific CX3340, making the short leap to Chek Lap Kok's newborn gleam in the near-distance – took off at 1.05am on ...

Some of us remember the cramped Kai Tak airport, shuttered now for over a decade. We miss its decrepit charm and the roller-coaster ride to the aircraft carrier runway jutting into the harbor.

THE FLOOR OF THE ARRIVALS LOUNGE AT THE FORMER KAI TAK AIRPORT displays a sign that reads “No Waiting,” but a dozen people still loiter. Not to greet passengers—the last one landed five ...

Kai Tak closed as Hong Kong's airport in 1998, but in the two decades since, the seemingly choice development site has sat largely vacant even as much of the city has grown more dense from ...

HNA Group Co., the debt-laden Chinese conglomerate on a selling spree, agreed to dispose of its last plot of land near Hong Kong’s former Kai Tak airport, ending ambitions for a massive ...