Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport (OEJD)

Closed airport (historical) · Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia

Airport data

NameAbbas Ibn Firnas Airport
ICAOSA-0087
CoordinatesN 21°30'33" E 39°12'22"
21.50915, 39.20609
LocationJeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia
Scheduled serviceNo

About Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport on Wikipedia

Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport at a glance

Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport is a closed airport (historical) in Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia. No official elevation is recorded for this entry, so treat published circuit heights with care and confirm locally. There is no scheduled airline service listed here — typical traffic is general aviation, training and local operations.

No runway records exist for this entry in the source dataset — common for fields whose operators never filed dimensions with the public dataset. The absence of a record says nothing about the runway on the ground: it may be paved, lighted and perfectly serviceable. Treat published charts, national AIP entries and the operator as the authoritative sources for runway data here, and this page as the identity and position reference for the field at Jeddah. When the dataset gains a runway record for this field, the next site build picks it up automatically — the reference layer regenerates from source on every rebuild rather than being edited by hand.

For the weather side of planning, the live METAR and TAF page for OEJD shows the current observation decoded line by line — wind on an instrument dial, visibility, cloud layers and the resulting flight rules — refreshed continuously from official sources.

Nearest airports to Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport

Distances are great-circle, measured from the field reference point — planning distances along airways or roads will run longer.

AirportCodeDistance
King Faisal Naval BaseOEJF18 km (10 NM)
King Abdulaziz International AirportOEJN20 km (11 NM)
Mecca East AirportOE4982 km (44 NM)
Taif International AirportOETF138 km (75 NM)
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz (Al Baha) AirportOEBA286 km (154 NM)

Flight-planning notes for Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport

With no published elevation for Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport, compute performance conservatively and confirm the field figure from local sources before relying on pattern or approach altitudes.

This entry is one of 40 airports and airfields we list for Saudi Arabia — the country index on the airports hub links the rest. Coordinates above are given in both DMS and decimal degrees so they can go straight into a GPS, a flight planner or a chart plot without conversion.

Where this data comes from

The reference layer behind this page builds on the OurAirports dataset — a public-domain, community-maintained register of the world's airports that many flight planners and apps rely on — with equity records preserved from documented historical listings where the dataset is silent. Figures are carried as published: elevations as surveyed, coordinates as filed, runway dimensions as recorded. Nothing is estimated to fill a gap, and the whole layer regenerates from source on every site build, so corrections upstream arrive here automatically.

Frequently asked questions about Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport

What is the ICAO code of Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport?

The ICAO identifier of Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport is SA-0087, and it has no IATA code assigned. The ICAO code is the one used in flight plans, METAR reports and aeronautical charts.

Where exactly is Abbas Ibn Firnas Airport located?

The airport lies at 21.5091, 39.2061 — in Jeddah, Makkah Region, Saudi Arabia, in the northern hemisphere. The closest listed field is King Faisal Naval Base, about 18 km away.

Does OEJD publish METAR weather reports?

Where the station reports, the current METAR and TAF for OEJD appear on its live weather page on this site, refreshed continuously from the US NWS Aviation Weather Center feed.

Current METAR & TAF for OEJD