Kyongsong Chuul Airport
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Kyongsong Chuul Airport is a military
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 Kyongsong-gun, Hamgyong-bukto,
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. It is subordinate to the 8th Air Transport Division and is home to an officer training school.
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imagery from 2018 shows the airport is undergoing complete reconstruction.


Facilities

The airfield has a single asphalt runway 13/31 measuring 3500 x 200 feet (1067 x 61 m). Landings database page
"Landings.Com", accessed 12 Aug 2010,

"Air Bases - Kyongsong-Chuul", accessed 12 Aug 2010,
It is sited on the east coast of North Korea, a few miles north of the
Orang Airport Orang Airport is a small airport located in Orang County, approximately 40 kilometres south of Chongjin, North Hamgyong in North Korea. Built by the Imperial Japanese Army, designated as K-33 (Hoemun Airfield) by the USAF during the Korean War ...
and south of the city of
Chongjin Chŏngjin (; ) is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province (함경북도) and the country's third largest city. It is sometimes called the ''City of Iron''. History Prehistory According to archaeological findings near the lower ...
.


References

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