Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · Lar's airport, open since 1983 at about 800 m elevation, international since the Gulf War.
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
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · Civil
- Roles today
- Civil airport
- Operators
- Iran Airports Company · Iran, civil · as of Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 09/27 [1] [2]3,329 m as published; source 2 lists 10,397 ft | 10,922 ft (3,329 m) | Not given | asphalt |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Larestan International 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 “Lar” · 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
Larestan International Airport is near Lar, at an elevation of about 800 m. [1] It is run by the Iran Airports Company. [1]
History
The airport began operations in 1983, mostly with domestic flights, and became international after the Gulf War with a first international flight to Dubai. [1]
The airfield
One asphalt runway, 09/27, 3,329 m long. [1]
Sources
- Larestan International Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larestan_International_Airport (accessed 2026-11-01). A short article: opening and international flights.
- Airport and runway data, OISL. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-11-01). Rows for OISL Lar Airport in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, elevation and runway 09/27.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Persian Gulf airbases (Lar.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/Lar.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.