HDS

Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit

ICAO FAHS24.3619°S 31.0529°E549 m / 1,801 ftMedium airport
On the map
Rear view medium shot over the right shoulder as Captain Chris Wheeler, assigned to the 52nd Fighter Wing at Spangdalem Air Base, Germany, and working as an Air Traffic Control Lias - DPLA - 95290b62e2b2e5bbae424b2a2591f118
Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service. Defense Visual Information Center. 1994 · Public domain · Commons

Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit (IATA: HDS, ICAO: FAHS) is a medium airport in Hoedspruit, Limpopo, South Africa. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,991 m (13,094 ft). It is operated by South African Air Force.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Eastgate Airport
18/36 · LIT
LENGTH3,991 m13,094 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
09/27 · LIT
LENGTH2,115 m6,939 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

3 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationsCemAir 3Airlink 2FlySafair 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HDS. From the Wikipedia article “Air Force Base Hoedspruit” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway3,991 m13,094 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#155of 29,823 · #18 Africa · #5 ZAElevation549 m1,801 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=9,901of 43,341 · =1,752 Africa · #378 ZARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =13 ZA
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record