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There is a growing interest in airport-based solar plant installations around the world. The buffer zone area in airports can effectively be utilized by tapping solar energy. However, it possesses concern for air safety and navigation mainly from the possible glare of the PV array. The objective of the study is to analyze the technical performance of a proposed solar PV plant in the premises of Kuantan Airport, Malaysia using SolarGis software with due consideration of glare occurrence. Eight zones are selected, and it was observed that yellow glare will occur for 4,552 min at ATC from Zone 8. The impact of glare from the other zones is in accordance with FAA’s glare policy. The selected zones cover 0.2677 km² of the airport’s land with solar potential of 20 MW. The proposed solar PV plant consists of 57,143 crystalline silicon PV modules. Each PV string consists of PV modules of 20 in number. The number of strings in …