Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · A Syrian Air Force base west of Hama, used heavily in the civil war until opposition forces took it in December 2024.
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
- West of the city of Hama, central Syria [1]
- Country or territory
- Syria
- Identifiers
- OS58
- Other names
- None recorded
- Opened
- no opening date is given in the sources consulted
- Theatre
- Middle East
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · No current operator
- Roles today
- None documented in the sources consulted
- Operators
- Syrian Air Force · Syria, air force · until Dec 2024 [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.
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Hama Air Base (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway
- Apron
- 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: Syria
DCS: Syria DCS World · Present day
Represented as “Hama” · 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: Persian Gulf, DCS: Sinai, DCS: Iraq, DCS: Iraq North, Falcon BMS: Israel.
Role today
Hama Air Base lies west of the city of Hama. [1] The Syrian Air Force used it heavily through the civil war, until opposition forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham took it on 5 December 2024 when government forces pulled out of Hama. [1] Its use since then is not described in the sources consulted.
History
On 18 May 2018 a series of large explosions at the base reportedly killed 11 people. [1] Syrian officials blamed a technical failure in the depots; other accounts blamed an Israeli strike or sabotage by the jihadist group Saraya al-Jihad, which claimed it. [1] On 1 March 2020, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, Turkish drones bombed the 47th Brigade based there. [1]
The airfield
One paved runway, 2,783 m long. [1] Source 2 lists it as 09/27, concrete, 150 ft wide. [2]
Sources
- Hama Air Base. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hama_Air_Base (accessed 2026-10-28). A short article: the runway, the civil war and the 2024 capture.
- Airport and runway data, OS58. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for OS58 Hama Air Base in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, elevation and runway 09/27.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Syria airbases (Hama.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/Syria/Hama.json (accessed 2026-10-28). With its beacon and navaid files, as tabled on the DCS: Syria 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.