Uiju Airfield 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 ...

Uiju County Ŭiju County is a kun, or county, in North Pyongan Province, North Korea. The county has an area of 420 km², and a population of 110,018 (2008 data). Name Ŭiju appears as Uiju in South Korea's Revised Romanization and as Yizhou in Chinese ...

, 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 ...

Facilities

The airfield has a single concrete runway 05/23 measuring 8180 x 174 feet (2493 x 53 m). Landings database page
"Landings.Com", accessed 06 Aug 2010 It is sited in the

Yalu River The Yalu River, known by Koreans as the Amrok River or Amnok River, is a river on the border between North Korea and China. Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between ...

plain, a few miles northeast of the Chinese city of

Dandong Dandong (), formerly known as Andong, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning province, in the northeastern region of People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese border city, facing Sinuiju, North Korea across the ...

. It is also a few miles northeast of

Sinuiju Airport Sinuiju Airfield is an airport near Sinuiju, Pyongan-bukto, North Korea. Facilities The airfield has a single turf runway 03/21 measuring 3250 x 213 feet (991 x 65 m).

. It has a full-length parallel taxiway, and several taxiways that access dispersed aircraft stands.

Tenants

The airfield is home to the

Korean People's Army Air Force The Korean People's Army Air and Anti-Air Force (KPAAF; ; Hanja: 朝鮮人民軍航空 및 反航空軍 ) is the unified military aviation force of North Korea. It is the second largest branch of the Korean People's Army comprising an estimated ...

's 24th Bomber Regiment, which has at least 32 Harbin B-5 (

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 ...

) bombers on site as of 2010. In 2021 the airfield was converted to a cargo decontamination facility for containers brought in by freight trains from China.

References

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