Port Sudan Military Airport
Port Sudan Military Airport is an airport located within Port Sudan.
Port Sudan Military Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
| Serves | Port Sudan, Sudan | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 21 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 19°34′39″N 037°12′57″E / 19.57750°N 37.21583°E | ||||||||||
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_(Kafia_Kingi_disputed).svg)  HSDN Location of airport in Sudan (Northern state highlighted) | |||||||||||
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The airport was once a civilian airfield and replaced by Port Sudan New International Airport opened in 1992. The new airport has assumed the ICAO airport code HSSP replacing HSPN.
Port Sudan Air Base
[edit]It currently hosts Sudanese Air Force Flight School (Aeronautics College) using a number of trainer aircraft not found in the active inventory of the SAF:[1]
- PT-6? - one lost to crash in 2017[2]
- SAFAT-03 - a local and modified variant of the UTVA 75 built at SAFAT Aviation Complex at Wadi Seidna Air Base
- Yak-52