Deir ez-Zor Airport مطار دير الزور العسكري | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Syria | ||||||||||
| Operator | Directorate General of Civil Aviation | ||||||||||
| Serves | Deir ez-Zor, Syria | ||||||||||
| Time zone | EET (UTC+02:00 / UTC+03:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 700 ft / 213 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°17′07″N 040°10′33″E / 35.28528°N 40.17583°E | ||||||||||
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  DEZ Location of airport in Syria | |||||||||||
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Deir ez-Zor Airport (Arabic: مطار دير الزور) (IATA: DEZ, ICAO: OSDZ) is an airport serving Deir ez-Zor, a city in northeastern Syria.
Deir ez-Zor Airport was established by the British during World War II as LG-416.
Before the war in Syria, airlines like Jazeera Airways and Syrian Air flew to destinations such as Damascus, Aleppo, Bahrain and Kuwait.
On October 15, 2012, heavy artillery and missiles strikes, originating in the airport, hit the city. On 24 November 2012, rebels were surrounding the airport.[3] During the night of 6 December 2014, ISIL took control over the missile battalion to the northeast of the airport and stormed the airbase itself,[4] but failed to seize it.
On 5 September 2017, Syrian special operations Tiger Forces and 17th Division troops started an offensive[5] to eventually capture Thardeh Mountains (under the control of ISIL fighters since CJTF-OIR forces had conducted the September 2016 Deir ez-Zor air raid upon then-besieged Syrian Army soldiers) and lift ISIL's siege of the airport.[6] On 9 September 2017, the Syrian SANA news agency reported that Syrian forces had broken the siege at the airport.[7][8] Russia's Defense Ministry said the lifting of the siege had followed ″a massive airstrike by Russian Aerospace Forces″.[7]
The airport sits at an elevation of 700 feet (213 m) above mean sea level. It has one asphalt paved runway, designated 10/28, measuring 3,000 by 45 metres (9,843 ft × 148 ft).[1]
As of December 2022, there are no regular flights scheduled to or from the airport.
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