HDS

Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit

ICAO FAHS24.3619°S 31.0529°E549 m / 1,801 ftMedium airport
On the map
Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit
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

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.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from HDS
Passenger3
5ZCemAir34ZAirlink2FAFlySafair1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from HDS. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 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 29,858 · #18 Africa · #5 ZAElevation549 m1,801 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=9,913of 43,403 · =1,752 Africa · #378 ZARunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =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