Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · A joint civil and military airport shared by Iran's air force, navy aviation and Revolutionary Guard; Iran Air 655 took off from it in 1988.
A real-world airfield as described in public sources, and how sim maps represent it. Units, facilities and names change; each is dated where the sources allow, and the charts are not for navigation. Use current official publications for flight planning.
Location and identity
- Location
- 12 km east of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, southern Iran [1]
- Country or territory
- Iran
- Coordinates
- 27.2183° N, 56.3778° E [2]
- Identifiers
- ICAO OIKB · IATA BND
- Other names
- None recorded
- Opened
- no opening date is given in the sources consulted
- Theatre
- Middle East
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Joint military and civil
- Roles today
- Civil airport
Runways and facilities
The sources do not date these figures. Facilities not listed here are not documented in the sources cited, which does not mean the airfield lacks them.
| Runway | Length | Width | Surface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03R/21L [1] [2]3,660 m | 12,008 ft (3,660 m) | 148 ft (45 m) | asphalt |
| 03L/21R [1] [2]3,457 m | 11,341 ft (3,457 m) | 98 ft (30 m) | asphalt |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Bandar Abbas International Airport (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway, with its name
- Apron
- Hangar or terminal
- Airfield boundary
Runways, taxiways, aprons and buildings inside the airfield boundary, true north up, drawn from OpenStreetMap data retrieved 2026-10-28. Widths come from the map data or, where it gives none, a typical 45 m runway and 18 m taxiway. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL 1.0. Community-mapped, not an official aerodrome chart, and not for navigation.
Sim maps
Represented in: DCS: Persian Gulf
DCS: Persian Gulf DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Bandar Abbas Intl” · checked 2026-10-28 [3]
- One runway, 03R/21L, 11,640 ft [3]
- Tower 118.1 MHz VHF [3]
- VOR-DME BND on 117.2 MHz, TACAN BND channel 78, an NDB (BND) and an ILS on runway 21L, 109.9 MHz (IBND) [3]
Differences from the real airfield
Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.
Other maps in Middle East, not yet checked for this airfield, which may lie outside them: DCS: Syria, DCS: Sinai, DCS: Iraq, DCS: Iraq North, Falcon BMS: Israel.
Role today
Bandar Abbas International is the airport of Bandar Abbas, with flights across Iran and to the Gulf states; about 1.3 million passengers used it in 2017. [1] It is a joint civil and military airfield, used by the Iran Airports Company, the Iranian Air Force, Iranian Navy aviation and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. [1]
History
Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down in 1988 after taking off from Bandar Abbas. [1] An Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom II crashed near the city on 14 October 2012, killing its two crew. [1]
The airfield
Two parallel asphalt runways: 03R/21L, 3,660 m long, and 03L/21R, 3,457 m. [1] It can take widebody aircraft such as the Boeing 747 and 777. [1]
Sources
- Bandar Abbas International Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_Abbas_International_Airport (accessed 2026-11-01). Infobox operators and runways, and its incidents.
- Airport and runway data, OIKB. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-11-01). Rows for OIKB in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, elevation and both runways.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Persian Gulf airbases (Bandar Abbas Intl.json). dcs-world-schema, open-source data extracted by running DCS World 2.9.30.28536. https://github.com/YoloWingPixie/dcs-world-schema/blob/c3091e6c08fb8167e26145d0e33c10e4140c6fe7/dcs-world-reference/latest/airbases/PersianGulf/Bandar%20Abbas%20Intl.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Persian Gulf map page.
Wikipedia articles are secondary sources and can change; they are cited with the date they were read. FAA airport data and diagrams are official but are reissued every 28 or 56 days; each is cited with the edition read. pydcs mirrors the DCS terrain data at the commit linked.