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Ie · 47 · Japan
Position
26.726°, 127.765° · 184 ft elev.
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U.S. military auxiliary airfield on a small Okinawa island.
Location
Ie, Japan
Iejima Auxiliary Air Base (ICAO: RODE) is a United States military airfield located on Ie-jima (Ie Island), a small island situated northwest of the main Okinawan island in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It functions as an auxiliary facility supporting U.S. military operations in the region, primarily used for training purposes by forces stationed at nearby Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and other Okinawa-based installations.
The airfield is not open to commercial traffic and has no scheduled civilian airline services. Ie-jima itself is a small agricultural island known for its distinctive flat-topped mountain, Gusuku-yama, and as the site where American war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed during World War II in April 1945.
Getting to & from
Ie-jima is accessible from the Okinawan mainland via ferry service from Motobu Port, though the airbase itself has no public ground transport connections.
Notable facts
- ›Operates as a U.S. military auxiliary airfield supporting MCAS Futenma and other Okinawa installations.
- ›Primarily used for military training flights rather than operational deployments.
- ›Located on Ie-jima, a small island roughly 9 km northwest of the Motobu Peninsula.
- ›Ie-jima is historically noted as the location where war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed on April 18, 1945.
- ›The airfield has no IATA code and is closed to civilian commercial aviation.
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