Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · Palmyra's military airport, fought over by the Islamic State and the Syrian army from 2015 to 2017.
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
- Country or territory
- Syria
- Coordinates
- 34.5574° N, 38.3169° E [2]
- Identifiers
- ICAO OSPR · IATA PMS
- 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 Palmyra Airport (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 “Palmyra” · 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
Palmyra Airport is a military airport serving the city of Palmyra, once known as Tadmur Airport and Camp Mermoz. [1] The Revolutionary Commando Army took it in December 2024, and it has no scheduled flights. [1]
History
The Islamic State captured it on 20 May 2015; the Syrian army retook it by 27 March 2016, lost it again eight months later in the December 2016 offensive, and recaptured it in March 2017. [1]
The airfield
One asphalt runway, 08/26, 2,880 m long. [1]
Sources
- Palmyra Airport. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyra_Airport (accessed 2026-10-28). A short article: its names, the battles for it from 2015 to 2017, its capture in 2024 and the runway.
- Airport and runway data, OSPR. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-10-28). Rows for OSPR in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, region, elevation and runway 08/26.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Syria airbases (Palmyra.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/Palmyra.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.