Onchon Air Base

{{Infobox airport

| name = Onchon Airport

| image =

| IATA = N/A

| ICAO = N/A

| FAA = N/A

| type = Military

| owner =

| operator =

| city-served = Onchon, North Korea

| location =

| elevation-f = 23

| elevation-m = 7

| coordinates = {{coord|38|54|34.20|N|125|13|56.00|E|}}

| pushpin_map = North Korea # Asia # North Pacific # Earth

| pushpin_mark = Roundel of North Korea.svg

| pushpin_marksize = 15

| pushpin_relief = y

| pushpin_label = Onchon

| website =

| r1-number = 01/19

| r1-length-f = 8,150

| r1-length-m = 2,484

| r1-surface = Concrete

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Onchon Air Base (온천비행장) is an air base near Onchon, Pyongan-namdo, North Korea.

Facilities

The airfield has a single concrete runway 01/19 measuring 8150 x 170 feet (2484 x 52 m). It has a full-length parallel taxiway and several aprons and hangars. It is on the west coast of North Korea and approximately {{convert|47|km|abbr=on}} west of Pyongyang.{{cite web|title=Airport Records|url=http://www.landings.com/evird.acgi?pass=183293319&ref=-&mtd=41&cgi=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fnph-search_apt&var=13&buf=66&src=_landings%2Fpages%2Fsearch_apt.html&1=&5=&7=p%27yongan-namdo&8=&6=onchon&9=&10=&max_ret=10&start_ret=1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128123115/http://www.landings.com/evird.acgi?pass=183293319&ref=-&mtd=41&cgi=/cgi-bin/nph-search_apt&var=13&buf=66&src=_landings/pages/search_apt.html&1=&5=&7=p'yongan-namdo&8=&6=onchon&9=&10=&max_ret=10&start_ret=1|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 28, 2013|website=landings|access-date=22 August 2016}}

Approximately {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}} to the southeast of the air base is an underground aviation complex with runways extending outwards from the tunnel systems.{{cite web|title=Online Spies Spot North Korea's Underground Airfields|url=https://www.wired.com/2010/07/online-spies-spot-north-koreas-underground-airfields/|access-date=22 August 2016}}

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