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Port Said International Airport (HEPS) lies on the northern approach to the Suez Canal, serving the city of Port Said in Egypt's Port Said Governorate. Built on the site of the former RAF El Gamil airfield, it offers a single long hard runway and remains a quiet, lightly used field for the modern VFR or IFR visitor. There is no instrument landing system, so arrivals should plan for a visual or non-precision approach in good weather.
Port Said International Airport, known by the ICAO code HEPS and IATA code PSD, serves the city of Port Said at the northern end of the Suez Canal. The field began life as RAF El Gamil Airfield and later saw a modernisation programme, with a partial inauguration in February 2011. It is of interest to the sim pilot both for its historical connections and for the long single runway typical of a former military strip, now supporting limited civil traffic.
The airport is situated in Egyptian airspace at the north end of the Suez Canal, close to the city of Port Said. No further detail on airspace classification or surrounding controlled airspace is available.
Port Said has a single physical runway, 10/28, aligned east-west. Runway 10 measures 7684 feet and runway 28 measures 7685 feet, both with a hard surface and both lit. There is no ILS installed at the field.
The airport radio facilities include an RDO frequency of 579 MHz and a TWR (tower) frequency of 120.7 MHz.
Specific published circuit heights, joining instructions or noise abatement procedures are not detailed in available material, though the airport has historically supported training circuit flying, as evidenced by a King Air training accident 500 metres from the airport in January 2008.
The airport sits close to the city of Port Said and the northern end of the Suez Canal, both of which serve as prominent visual landmarks when approaching the field from the surrounding low-lying coastal terrain.
The airfield originated as RAF El Gamil Airfield and is understood to be the same airfield involved in the 1956 Suez Crisis. It later became Port Said International Airport and underwent a modernisation programme, with a partial inauguration taking place in February 2011. In January 2008 a King Air aircraft crashed roughly 500 metres from the airport while conducting training circuits.
As of recent record, there are no scheduled commercial services operating to or from Port Said International Airport, and passenger numbers have been modest, with 2011 traffic recorded at 36,962 passengers. The airport nonetheless retains its long lit runway and continues to be used for general and training flying.
