SRX

Sirt International Airport / Ghardabiya Airbase

ICAO HLGD31.0586°N 16.5971°E81 m / 267 ftLarge airport
On the map
Ghardabiya Airfield - Damaged Aircraft Shelters - Operation Odyssey Dawn
U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) · Public domain · Commons

Sirt International Airport / Ghardabiya Airbase (IATA: SRX, ICAO: HLGD) is a large airport in Sirt, Surt District, Libya. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,599 m (11,807 ft).

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
13/31134° / 314°
LENGTH3,599 m11,807 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
18/36180° / 360°
LENGTH3,599 m11,807 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SRX. From the Wikipedia article “Ghardabiya Airbase” (revision of 11 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Longest runway3,599 m11,807 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#433of 29,823 · #56 Africa · #11 LYElevation81 m267 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=32,114of 43,341 · #2,719 Africa · #45 LYRunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =24 Africa · =3 LY
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

Radio frequencies

2 channels
GNDGND122.400
TWRTWR118.600