JMSDF Ōminato Base

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.

Ōminato Air Field

大湊基地
Summary
Airport typeMilitary
Operator Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
LocationMutsu, Japan
Elevation AMSL24 ft / 7 m
Coordinates41°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[1]

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.

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

References
  1. AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive

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