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Riwon Airport is an
airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...
in Riwŏn-gun, Hamgyong-namdo,
North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu River, Y ...
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Facilities

The airfield has a single asphalt runway 11/29 measuring 8150 x 128 feet (2484 x 39 m).Landings database page
"Landings.Com", accessed 25 Aug 2010
It has a full-length parallel taxiway with aprons at each end, as well as taxiways leading nearly 1.5 km north to dispersed or underground aircraft storage. It is home to a fighter regiment of 38 MiG-21 jets.GlobalSecurity.org
"Air Bases - North Korea", accessed 24 Aug 2010
The majority of aircraft located here tend to be a mass of J-5


References

Airports in North Korea South Hamgyong {{NorthKorea-airport-stub