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MY FS FLIGHTS
MY FS FLIGHTS
Miyazaki Airport, on the coast southeast of Miyazaki city on the island of Kyushu, is a joint civil-military use aerodrome with a single long, ILS-equipped runway and a full ATC service. Known locally as Miyazaki Bougainvillea Airport, it began life as an Imperial Japanese Navy base in 1943 and today handles scheduled domestic and international airline traffic as well as flight training.
Miyazaki Airport, affectionately known as Miyazaki Bougainvillea Airport, is a public airport operated by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and serves as the hub for Solaseed Air, whose head office occupies the second floor of the terminal building. For a simulator pilot it offers a single long hard-surfaced runway with an ILS approach, a busy mix of domestic and a small number of international airline movements, and a strong sense of history as a former Imperial Japanese Navy air base.
The airport lies about 3.2 km south-southeast of Miyazaki city, in Miyazaki Prefecture on the Pacific coast of Kyushu, Japan. It is served by approach, departure, ground and tower control along with an ATIS broadcast, indicating a controlled aerodrome environment with a defined terminal control area around the field.
Miyazaki has a single physical runway, 09/27, 8,153 feet long with a hard surface and lit for night operations. An ILS is provided for runway 27, giving an instrument approach into the field from the west.
Radio services at Miyazaki comprise Approach on 121.4 MHz, ATIS on 126.8 MHz, Departure on 120.1 MHz, Ground on 121.9 MHz and Tower on 118.3 MHz. The runway 27 approach is supported by an ILS.
The airfield opened in 1943 as an Imperial Japanese Navy base during the Second World War. From February 1945 it served as a major kamikaze base, launching a total of 47 aircraft on suicide missions during operations including the Battle of Okinawa. In the postwar decades it was redeveloped as a civil airport; the current terminal was renovated in 1990. On 10 October 1969, All Nippon Airways Flight 104 overran the runway on landing, though all four crew and 49 passengers survived. In October 2024 an unexploded wartime bomb dropped by US forces detonated beneath a taxiway, damaging the surface and forcing the cancellation of more than 80 flights before the runway resumed operation.
Miyazaki continues to operate as an international airport and is the hub for Solaseed Air, with a range of domestic services to cities including Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka, alongside limited international connections. The field is directly linked to the JR rail network via the adjoining Miyazaki Airport Station, unusual for a regional Japanese airport. Flying operations are supported by full air traffic control services as listed above.