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Kwaksan Airport(곽산비행장) 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 Pyongan-bukto,
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 04/22 measuring 2340 x 92 feet (713 x 28 m).Landings database page
"Landings.Com", accessed 24 Aug 2010
It has a partial parallel taxiway, and a fair amount of infrastructure leading to dispersed parking as far as 2 km southeast of the runway. It is home to a bomber regiment of 24
Ilyushin Il-28 The Ilyushin Il-28 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-28; NATO reporting name: Beagle) is a jet aircraft, jet bomber of the immediate postwar period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Forces. It was the Soviet Union's first such ai ...
jets.GlobalSecurity.org
"Air Bases - Kwaksan", accessed 24 Aug 2010


References

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