Ozurgeti Air Base (Kobuleti)

Drafted — not technically validated

Record revision 1 · The disused airfield inland from Kobuleti that DCS models as a working base; little published history survives.

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: Inland from Kobuleti on Georgia's Black Sea coast, in Adjara [1] [2]
Country or territory: Georgia
Coordinates: 41.9291° N, 41.8635° E [1]
Elevation: 79 ft (24 m) [3]
Identifiers: GE-0007
Other names: Ozurgeti Air Base [1]
Opened: no opening date was found in the sources consulted
Closed: disused: OpenStreetMap maps its runway as abandoned and unpaved [2]; no closing date was found
Theatre: The Caucasus

Role and operators

Status: Closed · No current operator
Roles today: None
Operators: None found in the sources consulted

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
07/25 [2]2,341 m as tagged in OpenStreetMap, which marks the runway abandoned	7,680 ft (2,341 m)	Not given	unpaved

Arresting gear: None documented in the sources cited
Navaids: None documented in the sources cited

Figure 1 — Airfield map of Ozurgeti Air Base (Kobuleti) (to scale)

Runway
Apron

The runways and aprons that remain mapped at this disused field, 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 “Kobuleti” · checked 2026-10-28 [4]

Runway 07/25 [4]
Tower 133.0 MHz VHF and 262.0 MHz UHF [4]
TACAN 67X (KBL), NDBs KT and T, and an ILS on runway 07, 111.5 MHz (IKB) [4]

Differences from the real airfield

Condition: The game has an active airfield with a tower, TACAN and ILS [4]; OpenStreetMap maps the real runway as abandoned and unpaved. [2]

Only the maps marked represented or confirmed absent have been checked. Any other map may or may not represent this airfield.

Role today

The airfield the game calls Kobuleti is listed in open airport data as Ozurgeti Air Base, inland from Kobuleti on the Adjaran coast. [1] Community mapping shows its single runway, 07/25, as abandoned and unpaved, with an apron beside it, and no longer maps the site as an aerodrome. [2]

History

No published history of this airfield was found in the sources consulted, including English and Russian Wikipedia. Its units and dates of use are not given here until a source for them is found.

The airfield

One runway, 07/25, 2,341 m long and mapped as unpaved. [2] The field’s elevation here is satellite terrain data, not a surveyed figure. [3]

Sources

Airport data, GE-0007. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Row for GE-0007 Ozurgeti Air Base, at the position of the game's Kobuleti: position only, with no elevation or runway rows. GE-0006, listed as Kobuleti Airfield, is a different, smaller strip to the south-west.
OpenStreetMap way/74309078 (abandoned runway 07/25) and the apron beside it. OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/74309078 (accessed 2026-10-28). Community-mapped. OSM no longer maps the site as an aerodrome.
SRTM 30 m terrain height at the airfield's OurAirports position. NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission data, via the OpenTopoData API. https://api.opentopodata.org/v1/srtm30m?locations=41.9291,41.863499 (accessed 2026-10-28). 24 m. A satellite terrain survey from 2000, not a surveyed aerodrome elevation; used because no published elevation was found.
dcs-world-schema reference data: Caucasus airbases (Kobuleti.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/Kobuleti.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.