Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · North Ossetia's only airport, near Beslan, dating from 1936.
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
- Near Beslan, 26 km from Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania [2]
- Country or territory
- Russia
- Coordinates
- 43.2051° N, 44.6066° E [3]
- Identifiers
- ICAO URMO · IATA OGZ
- Opened
- officially dated to 1936, when Po-2 passenger flights began in North Ossetia [2]
- Theatre
- The Caucasus
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Civil
- Roles today
- Civil airport
- Operators
- Vladikavkaz International Airport JSC (Novaport) · Russia, civil · as of Oct 2026 [2]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 [1] [2] [3]3,000 × 45 m; source 2 gives asphalt concrete | 9,843 ft (3,000 m) | 148 ft (45 m) | concrete |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Vladikavkaz (Beslan) International Airport (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway
- 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: Caucasus
DCS: Caucasus DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Beslan” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]
- Runway 10/28 [4]
- Tower 141.0 MHz VHF and 270.0 MHz UHF [4]
- NDBs CX and C, and an ILS on runway 10, 110.5 MHz (ICH) [4]
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.
Role today
Beslan is the only airport of North Ossetia–Alania, serving Vladikavkaz, and is run by Vladikavkaz International Airport, part of the Novaport group; it handled 566,000 passengers in 2019. [2] The sources consulted describe no based military flying unit.
History
The airport dates its founding to 1936, when Po-2 passenger flights began to Rostov-on-Don and Astrakhan. [2] A modern airport complex, with an instrument landing system and new surveillance and precision approach radars, was begun in 1979. [2] The runway was rebuilt from June 2014, and the airport was closed to all flights from 14 September to 2 December 2014 while the centre of the runway was resurfaced. [2]
The airfield
A single runway, 09/27, 3,000 m long and 45 m wide, with two taxiways and stands for up to 15 aircraft. [1] [2]
Sources
- Beslan Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_Airport (accessed 2026-10-28).
- Владикавказ (аэропорт) (Vladikavkaz airport). Russian Wikipedia (secondary source, in Russian). https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Владикавказ_(аэропорт) (accessed 2026-10-28). Operator, runway, the 2014 rebuilding and the Soviet-era history.
- Airport and runway data, URMO. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for URMO in airports.csv and runways.csv.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Beslan.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/Caucasus/Beslan.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Caucasus 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.