It is 14 years this month since the last plane rolled down the runway at Kai Tak, yet memories of jumbo jets thundering low over the mountains and tenements of Kowloon before landing on the edge of the harbour still send a shiver down the spines of Hongkongers and aviation fans.
And the hair-raising reputation of the airport and the place it still holds in the hearts of many have inspired an Italian artist's latest work, an attempt to captured the nostalgic, almost mythical reputation of the beloved airport.
'The airport is a sort of a legend, like a fairytale you tell children,' said Marco de Mutiis, a creative media research associate at City University, whose first experience of Hong Kong when he arrived in 2009 was of the vast new airport at Chek Lap Kok.
'I know someone who has never been to Hong Kong, but they know all about the old airport.
'Kai Tak's identity is in limbo and even though it's quite recent that it closed, the spotlight is on the new airport, the focus is on the future,' he said. 'So the work is about this concept of memory versus history.'
Mutiis' piece is on show at Videotage, one of the galleries at the Cattle Depot artist village in To Kwa Wan, a stone's throw from the old airport.