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Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit (HDS)

Hoedspruit, South Africa · ICAO FAHS · IATA HDS

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Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit (FAHS)18360927
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Hoedspruit, South Africa
ICAO code
FAHS
IATA code
HDS
Elevation
1,801 ft
Longest runway
13,094 ft (18/36)
Runways
2
Size class
Medium
Position
-24.3619, 31.0529

About FAHS

Eastgate Airport / Air Force Base Hoedspruit (HDS) is a medium airport in Hoedspruit, South Africa, with the ICAO code FAHS. Its two runways are 18/36 and 09/27. The longer one, 18/36, is 13,094 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 271 taxiway segments, 6 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 4 airlines have 24 routes through FAHS. Its most frequent links are Cape Town (CPT) and Johannesburg (JNB).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
18 / 3613,094 ft148 ftHardLit
09 / 276,939 ft98 ftHardLit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • South African SAA4 routes

Also flying here, shown by airline code: LNK, KEM, SFR.

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.