Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · A domestic civil and Iranian Navy aviation airport in Hormozgan, international until the early 1980s.
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
- At Bandar Lengeh, Hormozgan Province, Iran [1]
- Country or territory
- Iran
- Coordinates
- 26.5323° N, 54.8248° E [2]
- Identifiers
- ICAO OIBL · IATA BDH
- 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.
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Bandar Lengeh 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 Lengeh” · checked 2026-10-28 [3]
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 Lengeh Airport is a civil and military airport, run by the Iran Airports Company and used by Iranian Navy aviation. [1] It has only domestic flights, to Iranian cities including Shiraz and Tehran. [1]
History
It was once international, with Iran Air flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Muscat, but scheduled international services ended in the early 1980s. [1]
The airfield
One asphalt runway, 08/26, 2,500 m long. [1]
Sources
- Bandar Lengeh Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandar_Lengeh_Airport (accessed 2026-11-01). A short article: its flights and its operators.
- Airport and runway data, OIBL. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-11-01). Rows for OIBL in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, elevation and runway 08/26.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Persian Gulf airbases (Bandar Lengeh.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%20Lengeh.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.