Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · An uncontrolled single-runway airfield on Iran's oil island of Sirri, where US forces struck a platform in Operation Praying Mantis.
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
- On Sirri Island in the Persian Gulf, Abumusa County, Hormozgan Province [1]
- Country or territory
- Iran
- Coordinates
- 25.9089° N, 54.5394° E [2]
- Elevation
- 43 ft (13 m) [2]
- Identifiers
- ICAO OIBS · IATA SXI
- Other names
- Siri Airport [2]
- Opened
- no opening date is given in the sources consulted
- Theatre
- Middle East
Role and operators
- Status
- Active · operator not named in the sources consulted
- Roles today
- Civil airport
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/30 [2] | 8,345 ft (2,544 m) | 175 ft (53 m) | asphalt |
- Arresting gear
- None documented in the sources cited
- Navaids
- None documented in the sources cited
Figure 1 — Airfield map of Sirri Island Airport (to scale)
- Runway
- Taxiway
- Apron
- Hangar or terminal
- Helipad
- 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 “Sirri Island” · checked 2026-10-28 [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
Sirri Island’s airport is uncontrolled, with a single runway, though Iranian military aircraft have been seen there. [1] The island, 17.3 km² of it, is an oil centre: the Iranian Offshore Oil Company runs gas and crude oil projects there, and the Sirri district includes the Sivand, Dena, Nosrat, Alvand and Esfand oil fields. [1]
History
On 18 April 1988, in Operation Praying Mantis, US naval forces destroyed an Iranian oil platform at Sirri; it was rebuilt after the war. [1]
The airfield
One asphalt runway, 12/30, listed at 8,345 ft. [2]
Sources
- Sirri Island. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirri_Island (accessed 2026-11-01). The island article: its oil fields, Operation Praying Mantis and the airport.
- Airport and runway data, OIBS. OurAirports open data (public domain, community-maintained). https://davidmegginson.github.io/ourairports-data/airports.csv (accessed 2026-11-01). Rows for OIBS Siri Airport in airports.csv and runways.csv: position, elevation and runway 12/30.
- dcs-world-schema reference data: Persian Gulf airbases (Sirri Island.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/Sirri%20Island.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.