POD your post brings back some great memories.They were still flying the DC-3 back in the 60's and as a youngster we used to go to Penang every holiday and stay at the Lone pine hotel and the only way to get there and avoid the awful road from Ipoh was by flight.I will never forget being on the DC-3 which later gave way to the F-27.We must been on one of the last flights the DC-3 ever operated out of Ipoh and the sight of the DC-3 started my passion for flying which hasn't abated till this day.
Ipoh airport is more or less the same rustic place as it was then with Rwy 04-22 still in place though a little longer with some landings on the 737 a little hairy at times!