Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · Fujairah's airport since 1987, with an aviation academy and a second runway opened in 2022.
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
- South of central Fujairah City, Emirate of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates [1]
- Country or territory
- United Arab Emirates
- Coordinates
- 25.1084° N, 56.3281° E [2]
- Elevation
- 153 ft (47 m) [1]
- Identifiers
- ICAO OMFJ · IATA FJR
- Other names
- None recorded
- Opened
- began operations in October 1987 [1]
- Theatre
- Middle East
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Civil
- Roles today
- Civil airport · Flight training
- Operators
- Department of Civil Aviation · United Arab Emirates, civil · as of Oct 2026 [1]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/29 [1]3,749 m as published | 12,300 ft (3,749 m) | Not given | asphalt |
| New runway [1]opened 3 December 2022; more than 3 km long and 45 m wide | Not given | Not given | Not given |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Fujairah 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: Persian Gulf
DCS: Persian Gulf DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Fujairah Intl” · checked 2026-10-28 [3]
- Runway 11/29 [3]
- Tower 124.6 MHz VHF [3]
- VOR-DME FJV, channel 85X and 113.8 MHz, and an ILS on runway 29, 111.5 MHz (IFJR) [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
Fujairah International serves Fujairah City. [1] One terminal handles both passengers and cargo, with capacity for 2 million passengers a year, and the airport is home to the Fujairah Aviation Academy and does aircraft dismantling and maintenance. [1]
History
The airport began operations in October 1987. [1] A 2014 memorandum with Abu Dhabi Airports started a masterplan for the airfield and terminal, and on 3 December 2022 a new runway, more than 3 km long and 45 m wide, opened. [1]
The airfield
The infobox gives runway 11/29 as 3,749 m of asphalt; the 2022 runway is more than 3 km long. [1]
Sources
- Fujairah International Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujairah_International_Airport (accessed 2026-10-28). A short article: history from 1987, the 2022 runway and the aviation academy.
- Airport and runway data, OMFJ. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for OMFJ in airports.csv: position.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Persian Gulf airbases (Fujairah 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/Fujairah%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.