Sondok Airport guide

Sondok Airport (ICAO: ZKSD) is an airfield in Sondong-ri, Chongphyong County, South Hamgyong Province, on North Korea's east coast. It is listed as the airport for Hamhung, the province's main city. The North Korean government owns it and the Civil Aviation Administration of Korea operates it.

The airfield is mainly a military base. It hosts a bomber regiment with 24 Il-28 jets and 40 An-2 aircraft. Commercial service is minimal and irregular. A Pyongyang to Sondok domestic route ran for about six months before it was cancelled in December 2014, because rail and road links to Hamhung are comparatively good. In 2002, Air Koryo ran services between Sondok and Yangyang Airport in South Korea.

The single concrete runway is 2,502 metres long and 50 metres wide. A full-length parallel taxiway runs beside it and a large apron lies on the north side. The US Air Force designated the field K-26 during the Korean War, and it was the target of one of Task Force 77's largest strikes in July 1953. A hijacked Korean Air Lines YS-11 landed here in 1969.