JMSDF Ōminato Naval Base

Ōminato Air Field 大湊基地
IATA: none ICAO: RJSO
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
Location	Mutsu, Japan
Elevation AMSL	24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates	41°13′58″N 141°07′56″E
Map
RJSO Location in Japan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04/22 600 1,969 Concrete
Source: Japanese AIP at AIS Japan

JMSDF Ōminato Base (大湊基地, Ōminato Kichi) is a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force naval base with port and military aerodrome (ICAO: RJSO) facilities. It is located on Mutsu Bay in the city of Mutsu in the Aomori Prefecture, in extreme northern Honshū, Japan.

Operations

JMSDF Ōminato Base is the modern successor to the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Ōminato Guard District and was established on 16 September 1953.

The base is currently home for the JMSDF 25th Squadron equipped with Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk helicopters configured for the anti-submarine warfare role, and assigned to patrols of the Tsugaru Strait. It is also a base of operations for a flight of Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters from the JMSDF 73rd Squadron at Tateyama Air Base.

Gallery

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  Panorama of JMSDF Ōminato Base
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  JS Chikuma and three Asagiri class destroyers at Ōminato
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  JS Suzunami anchored off Ōminato
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  JS Kongō anchored off Ōminato

External links

Media related to JMSDF Ōminato Naval Base at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in Japanese)