Uiju Airfield

Airport in North Korea

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
05/23	8,180	2,493	Concrete

Uiju Airfield
Chosŏn'gŭl	의주비행장
Hancha	義州飛行場
Revised Romanization	Uiju bihaengjang
McCune–Reischauer	Ŭiju pihaengjang

Uiju Airfield (IATA: UJU, ICAO: ZKUJ) is an airport in Uiju County, Pyongan-bukto, North Korea.

Facilities

The airfield has a single concrete runway 05/23 measuring 8180 x 174 feet (2493 x 53 m).^[2] It is sited in the Yalu River plain, a few miles northeast of the Chinese city of Dandong. It is also a few miles northeast of Sinuiju Airport. 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's 24th Bomber Regiment, which has at least 32 Harbin B-5 (Ilyushin Il-28) 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.^[3]

References

^ "Airline and Airport Code Search". IATA. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
^ Landings database page Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine "Landings.Com", accessed 06 Aug 2010
^ Davies, Christian (2021-11-15). "North Korea building project points to reopening of border with China". Financial Times. Retrieved 2022-01-19.