Pukchang Airport
airport in North Korea
Pukchang Airport (북창비행장) is an airport in Pyongan-namdo, North Korea. It serves as the military airfield for the nearby city of Sunchon.
Facilities
The airfield has a single concrete runway 14/32 measuring 8,150 by 164 feet (2,484 m × 50 m). It has several aprons and taxiway leading to both revetments and underground aircraft storage. It is home to a fighter regiment of Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 jets and Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 jets.
Missile testing
The airfield was used to test-launch a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile on April 28, 2017, with the missile subsequently crashing into Chongsin-dong, Tokchon.
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