Title: 1970s Hong Kong Kai Tak Airport Plane Landing Lung Tseung Road Aerial Panorama Postcard
Estimated Era: Early to mid-1970s, based on the level of urban development visible in the foreground housing estates, the relatively sparse construction around the airport perimeter, and the print and card style.
Building Status: Kai Tak Airport closed permanently on July 6, 1998, replaced by Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok. The entire Kai Tak site has since been redeveloped into a new urban district including a cruise terminal, sports facilities and residential towers. The distinctive red and white chequered hillside approach marker visible on the left — the famous Chequerboard Hill (方格山) — was decommissioned along with the airport and its distinctive pattern was removed, though the hill itself remains.
Front Description: A colour photograph taken from a high hillside vantage point on Lung Tseung Road looking down and across a sweeping panoramic view over Kowloon and Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong. A large four-engine jet aircraft — appearing to be a Boeing 747 or similar wide-body — is visible in the upper centre of the image in a head-on view, gear down and on approach to land at Kai Tak, silhouetted small against the bright blue sky with white cumulus clouds. The iconic Kai Tak runway is clearly visible in the middle of the image — a narrow reclaimed land peninsula extending out into Kowloon Bay, with the runway’s threshold and runway markings clearly defined against the dark blue harbour water surrounding it on three sides. A large power station chimney stack with red and white banded markings is visible at the left, with the distinctive Chequerboard Hill approach marker in red and white squares on the hillside to its left — this was the crucial visual aid that pilots used during the famous curved IGS approach to runway 13. The harbour beyond the runway stretches to Hong Kong Island, whose skyline of tall buildings is visible in the upper right distance. The foreground shows the newly developed residential areas of Kowloon hillside — multiple large green-grey housing estate blocks, some still with surrounding construction or bare ground, and dense tree coverage. A white multi-storey institutional or residential building with balconies is visible in the centre foreground. Mountains frame the entire background panorama.
Back Description: Three-language caption at top: Chinese 從龍翔道俯望航機降落情形, English “View of plane landing, from Lung Tseung Road”, and Japanese 龍ショ通リから空港の空降風景. POST CARD / From Hong Kong printed in large serif letters at centre right. STAMP box with scalloped border at upper right. Divided back with vertical line. Four dotted address lines on the right side. Publisher details at lower right: G.P.O. BOX 6514 HONG KONG with a small Chinese junk sailing boat logo and the number 23. Unused. No stamp, no handwriting, no address.
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