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Abadan International Airport (OIAA) lies close to the city of Abadan in Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran, and is best known to history as a wartime Lend-Lease hub for aircraft bound for the Soviet Union. Today it remains a working regional airport with a long main runway and an ILS approach, serving a handful of domestic and near-regional routes.
Abadan International Airport sits a short distance from the city of Abadan in Khuzestan Province, southwestern Iran, and is operated by the Iran Airports Company. For a simulator pilot the field is notable both for its unusually long paired runways, more typical of a major international gateway than the modest regional traffic it now handles, and for its striking wartime history as a Lend-Lease staging point.
The airport is situated in Abadan, Khuzestan Province, Iran, about 12 kilometres from the city centre, in the low-lying delta country near the Iran-Iraq border. It sits at an elevation of 7 feet above mean sea level, reflecting the flat, near sea-level terrain of the region.
Abadan has two parallel physical runways. The main runway, 14R/32L, is 10,171 feet long with a hard surface, lit, and equipped with an ILS on the 32L threshold. The secondary runway, 14L/32R, is 7,424 feet long with a hard surface but is not listed as lit.
The airport provides an ATIS broadcast on 126.85 MHz and a tower frequency of 118.1 MHz. An ILS is available for the 32L approach on the main runway.
During the Second World War, Abadan Airport served as a major logistics centre for Lend-Lease aircraft being sent to the Soviet Union by the United States. From May 1942 the United States Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command and the Douglas Aircraft Company operated a plant at the airfield, with the 17th Air Depot Group assembling newly arrived aircraft and flight-testing them before they were flown on to Mehrabad Airport in Tehran for delivery to Soviet crews. The airfield was designated Station #3 by the Air Transport Command's North African Wing, with connecting routes to Mehrabad, RAF Habbaniya in Iraq, and Bahrain Airport. In 1977 the airport was upgraded to international status, with Iran Air launching the first scheduled international service to Kuwait City; between 1977 and late 1978 Iran Air also operated flights IR754/755 to London Heathrow via Athens three times weekly. These international services ceased with the onset of the Iranian revolution in December 1978, and the airport has operated without international flights since 1980.
Abadan International Airport continues to handle scheduled domestic and near-regional passenger services, with airlines such as Iran Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Caspian Airlines, Kish Air, Qeshm Air and others operating flights to destinations including Tehran-Mehrabad, Mashhad, Isfahan, Shiraz and Kish.