Pyongyang Air Base information

Pyongyang Air Base also known as Heijo Airfield or Pyongyang (K-23) Air Base was a former Imperial Japanese Army Air Service, Korean People's Air Force...

resumption of Air Koryo flights to Beijing and Vladivostok. During the period of Japanese rule, two airports were built in Pyongyang. Pyongyang Air Base was built...

Mirim Airport, also known as Pyongyang East Airfield or K-24 Air Base, is an airport in Mirim-dong, Sadong-guyok, Pyongyang-si, North Korea. The airfield...

Air Koryo (Korean: 고려항공; Hancha: 高麗航空; MR: Koryŏ Hanggong) is the state-owned flag carrier of North Korea, headquartered in Sunan-guyŏk, Pyongyang. Based...

Pyongyang is the capital and largest city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), commonly known as North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled...

The bombing of Pyongyang was conducted as part of a gradual and sustained U.S. aerial bombing of North Korea during the Korean War. By the time of the...

combat element of the Army Air Forces. This organization changed in 1947 when the new United States Air Forces adopted the wing-base plan. Each combat group...

and approximately 47 km (29 mi) west of Pyongyang. Approximately 5 km (3.1 mi) to the southeast of the air base is an underground aviation complex with...

(福岡空港, Fukuoka Kūkō) (IATA: FUK, ICAO: RJFF), formerly known as Itazuke Air Base, is an international and domestic airport located 1.6 NM (3.0 km; 1.8 mi)...

Yokota Air Base (横田飛行場, Yokota Hikōjō), (IATA: OKO, ICAO: RJTY) is a Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) and United States Air Force (USAF) base in the...

United States Air Force 8th Fighter Wing is the host unit at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea and is assigned to Seventh Air Force. Seventh Air Force falls...

The Pyongyang trolleybus system (Korean: 평양 무궤도전차) forms part of the public transport network of Pyongyang, the capital city of North Korea, and extends...

Reservoir Pyongyang Air Base Pyongyang East Air Base (K-24) Futrell, Frank (1983). The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950-1953 (PDF). Air Force History...

Pyongyang Defence Command (Korean: 평양방위사령부), also known as the Pyongyang Defense Corps is a military area and corps of the Korean People's Army based...

the North Koreans operating out of Heijo Airfield in Pyongyang. Heijo was the KPAF's main base, but in the first few days in the war the US pilots only...

US Air Force's 51st Operations Group at Osan Air Base, South Korea. It operates the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft conducting air superiority...

Fighter Squadron is a United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 8th Operations Group, stationed at Kunsan Air Base, South Korea. The squadron operates...

People's Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis was tested at Eglin AFB. Flown to Kimpo Air Base, South Korea, from Sunan Air Base near Pyongyang by defecting...

immediately retreated to the north. The aircraft likely staged at Pyongyang Air Base and informed their superiors. No additional North Korean aircraft...

Seoul when hijackers commandeered the aircraft and forced it to fly to Pyongyang, North Korea. Upon landing, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair and...

sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city. The Korean Peninsula was first inhabited...

learning of this, the hijackers insisted that the plane be diverted to Pyongyang, North Korea, after stopping to refuel in Fukuoka. Upon arrival at Fukuoka...

granite base topped by a two-story structure. The gate's structure was destroyed by American air attacks during the destruction of Pyongyang in Korean...

flights to this airport are from Pyongyang Sunan International Airport and served by the country's only airline: Air Koryo. The airport was built in the...

operations from Pusan East Air Base soon became impractical, and the unit moved in November to Pyongyang East Air Base, North Korea. The Chinese Communist...

ended and Korea regained independence from Japan. His father returned to Pyongyang that September, and in late November Kim returned to Korea via a Soviet...

officially began operations on 3 March 1963, at 19:00 (7:00 pm) KST based in Pyongyang, broadcasting two hours between 19:00 until 21:00 KST on weekdays...