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Alzintan Airport (ICAO: HLZN, IATA: ZIS) is a small public airfield serving the town of Zintan in the Jabal al Gharbi District of northwestern Libya. It sits in open desert well south of the town and offers a single hard-surfaced runway with no instrument approach aids, making it a straightforward but remote VFR destination for simulator pilots exploring Libyan airspace.
Alzintan Airport is a public airfield built to serve the town of Zintan in northwestern Libya. It lies in open desert some distance south of the town itself and has historically supported both civilian and, at times, military air activity in the region. For a simulator pilot, it represents an isolated desert strip with a single runway and none of the navigational aids or ATC infrastructure found at larger Libyan airports, making it an interesting exercise in dead-reckoning and visual navigation.
Alzintan Airport is located in the Jabal al Gharbi District of northwest Libya, with the runway situated in open desert approximately 15 kilometres south of the town of Zintan, which it serves. The field lies at coordinates 31.7674 N, 12.2461 E within Libyan airspace, at an elevation of 2,077 feet. No information is available on the specific airspace classification or any controlled zones surrounding the field.
Alzintan Airport has a single physical runway aligned 02/20, with a hard surface and a length of 6,631 feet. There is no ILS or other instrument approach equipment associated with the runway.
No communications frequencies are published for Alzintan Airport, and there is no ATC or A/G radio service on record. The airport has no ILS and no other navigational aids are listed.
The airfield's principal visual reference is the town of Zintan itself, which lies approximately 15 kilometres to the north of the runway across open desert terrain. Beyond this, no published visual reporting points or additional landmarks are available.
Alzintan Airport became a focal point during a period of intense factional conflict in Libya in 2015, when it was repeatedly targeted by aerial attacks amid fighting between rival governments based in Tripoli and Tobruk. In February 2015, militias aligned with the Libya Dawn coalition, reportedly flying MiG-23 jets left over from the Gaddafi-era air force, struck the airfield in two separate raids in a single day, the first damaging the edge of the runway and the second hitting the town centre; these strikes were seen as a possible response to Egyptian air raids in the area. A further incident on 24 March 2015 saw forces loyal to the Tobruk government claim to have shot down a Libya Dawn MiG-23 near the airport, though the Tripoli administration attributed the crash to technical failure; the Zintan airport spokesman, Omar Matooq, reported that one of the two pilots involved was found dead from burns while the other was captured. On 1 April 1963 an unidentified warplane, attributed by a military source to Libya Dawn, struck the airport and damaged a passenger terminal, with further attacks the following day also hitting the nearby town of Al-Rajban. On 23 April 2015, a Libya Dawn warplane again struck the airport, damaging the passenger terminal and destroying the airfield control tower, in a strike reportedly coordinated with an attack on Rujban and possibly launched from Mitiga Airport.
Alzintan Airport continues to serve as a domestic airfield for the town of Zintan, with at least one airline having operated scheduled flights connecting Zintan to Benghazi in recent years. No details are available regarding current facilities, fuel availability, operating hours, or whether prior permission is required for visiting aircraft, and there is no indication of dedicated flight training or club activity based at the field.
