Sunchon Airport(순천비행장) 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 surfa ...

in Pyongan-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 Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

. It is 28mi or 45km northwest of

Pyongyang Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...

, the capital of North Korea.

Facilities

The airfield has a single concrete runway 15/33 that used to measure 8150 x 157 feet (2484 x 48 m).Landings database page
"Landings.Com", accessed 25 Aug 2010 According to another source, it was recently expanded to 9186ft in length (2800m), with a possible extra 1300ft (~400m) extension being cleared. It has a full-length parallel taxiway with two aprons at the ends. One taxiway leads to possible underground storage. It is home to the 55th fighter regiment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 and

Sukhoi Su-25 The Sukhoi Su-25 ''Grach'' (russian: Грач ('' rook''); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi. It was designed to provide close air support for Sovi ...

jets.GlobalSecurity.org
"Air Bases - North Korea", accessed 25 Aug 2010

References

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