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King Hussein International Airport (OJAQ) serves the Red Sea resort city of Aqaba in southern Jordan, close to the borders of Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway and is home to several Jordanian flight-training and aerobatic organisations, making it an interesting stop for the VFR simulator pilot exploring the northern end of the Gulf of Aqaba.
King Hussein International Airport, generally known as Aqaba Airport, lies on the outskirts of Aqaba on Jordan's short Red Sea coastline. It is Jordan's principal airport serving the southern part of the country and the Gulf of Aqaba resort area, and in addition to scheduled and charter traffic it hosts flying-training academies, an aerobatic display team and business-aviation operators, giving it a varied character that will appeal to a simulator pilot looking for more than just an airline destination.
The airport sits in the far south of Jordan on the Gulf of Aqaba, in an area bordered closely by Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, which makes the surrounding airspace geographically sensitive. As a large international airport it is served by its own approach and tower frequencies, indicating that arriving and departing traffic operates within controlled airspace under radar and tower control rather than as an uncontrolled field.
The airport has a single physical runway, 01/19, with a hard surface some 9,859 feet in length. Both runway lights and ILS guidance are provided, and the runway is lit for night operations. Field elevation is 141 feet.
Aqaba Tower operates on 118.1 MHz, with Approach on 119.2 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz and a miscellaneous frequency on 121.6 MHz. The long runway is equipped with an ILS, giving pilots a precision approach aid for instrument arrivals in addition to the visual circuit.
Aqaba Airport has long been associated with Jordanian military and civil aviation training. The Royal Aero Club, founded under the patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II, and the Royal Jordanian Falcons National Aerobatics Team both trace their roots to activity based at the airport, while the Royal Jordanian Air Academy has operated from the field since being established in 1966 as a regional centre for flight training.
Today the airport combines scheduled and charter airline services with a cluster of aviation training and support organisations. The Royal Jordanian Air Academy and the Ayla Aviation Academy both conduct flight training from the airport, the Royal Jordanian Falcons National Aerobatics Team is based there, and Albaddad Aircraft Maintenance operates an aircraft maintenance base on the field. Business and private aviation are supported by operators such as Jordanian Private Jet Services and National Aviation Services, alongside an air cargo terminal handling freight traffic.