YEC

Yecheon Airbase

ICAO RKTY36.6304°N 128.3497°E108 m / 354 ftMedium airport
On the map

Yecheon Airbase (IATA: YEC, ICAO: RKTY) is a medium airport in Yecheon-ri, Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province), South Korea. It has one runway, 2,743 m (9,000 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Republic of Korea Air Force. In 2003 it handled 19 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
10/28089° / 269° · LIT
LENGTH2,743 m9,000 ftWIDTH46 m150 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

1997–2003
390K
217K
170K
133K
86K
19K
979899000103

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers19K (2003)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,458of 3,974 · #754 Asia · #16 KRLongest runway2,743 m9,000 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,801of 29,823 · =541 Asia · =11 KRElevation108 m354 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,007of 43,341 · #1,668 Asia · #25 KRRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =185 Asia · =18 KR
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

6 channels
ACPBRICKWALL120.000
APPAPP134.500
ATISATIS136.800
DEPDEP134.500
GNDGND124.350
TWRTWR124.350