Metabaru Air Field

Airport in JGSDF Camp Metabaru, Japan

RJDM

Location in Japan

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
04/22	660	2,165	Paved

Source: Japanese AIP at AIS Japan^[1]

Metabaru Air Field (目達原飛行場, Metabaru Hikōjō) (ICAO: RJDM) is a military aerodrome of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF). It is located at JGSDF Camp Metabaru (目達原駐屯地, Metabaru Chūtonchi), in Yoshinogari, Saga Prefecture, Japan.

On February 5, 2018 an AH-64D Apache of the JGSDF helicopter based at Metabaru crashed in nearby Kanzaki, Saga. Both crew members were killed in the crash, a local person was injured and a house was destroyed.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

^ AIS Japan Archived 2016-05-17 at the Portuguese Web Archive
^ "SDF helicopter crashes, goes up in flames in Saga residential area". Asahi Shimbun. February 5, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^ "Japanese Apache helicopter crashes in residential area of Saga Prefecture". Japan Times. February 5, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^ "GSDF helicopter had main rotor replaced before crash". Japan Times. February 5, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^ "Onodera mum on Osprey deployment plan in Saga after helicopter crash". Mainichi Shimbun. February 12, 2018. Archived from the original on February 21, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.

Airports in Japan

¹ Joint civil-military use

Major hubs

International

Hokkaidō	Asahikawa Hakodate
Tōhoku	Akita Aomori Sendai
Kantō	Ibaraki (Hyakuri)¹
Chūbu	Komatsu¹ Niigata Shizuoka Toyama
Chūgoku	Hiroshima Miho–Yonago¹ Okayama
Shikoku	Kōchi Matsuyama Takamatsu
Kyushu	Kitakyushu Nagasaki Oita Saga¹ Kagoshima Kumamoto Miyazaki
Okinawa	Ishigaki (Painushima) Shimojishima¹