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Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport

airport in Abadan, Iran

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1948430 ↗
Source-derived summary

Abadan International Airport (IATA: ABD, ICAO: OIAA) is situated 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from the city of Abadan, Iran.

History

During World War II, Abadan Airport was a major logistics center for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States. Beginning in May 1942, the United States Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command and the Douglas Aircraft Company established a plant at the airport, with the 17th Air Depot Group assembling newly arrived aircraft and flight-testing them. Once prepared, they were flown to Mehrabad Airport at Tehran for delivery to the Soviets. The airport was designated Station #3 by the Air Transport Command North African Wing, with connecting routes to Mehrabad Airport, Tehran; RAF Habbaniya, Iraq, and Bahrain Airport, Bahrain.

In 1977, it was upgraded as an international airport with the first scheduled international flight to Kuwait City, which was served by a flag carrier Iran Air and operated until 1980, leaving the airport without international flights.

In the period 1977 to late 1978, Iran Air operated flights IR754/755 to London Heathrow via Athens, three times weekly. This service discontinued with the start of the Iranian revolution in December 1978.

Airlines and destinations

The following airlines offer scheduled passenger service:

Incidents and accidents

On 10 September 1958, Mariner P-303 was being ferried to the Netherlands from Biak, Indonesia. Due to technical problems, a forced landing was carried out at Abadan, Iran.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport” is airport in Abadan, Iran. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Abadan, Ayatollah and Jami, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1977, 1980, 1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Abadan, Ayatollah and Jami is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “airport in Abadan, Iran” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1948430. Authority coordinates are 30.371, 48.228. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1977, 1980 and 1978.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Abadan Ayatollah Jami International Airport” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.