Ironforge Airport
On the eastern slopes of Mount Ironforge, high above Dun Morogh, the dwarves built an airstrip: runways, planes, buildings, a gryphon master and a tunnel heading back towards the city. In vanilla none of it worked and none of it could be reached without a long, illegal climb.
The airport nobody could use
Explorers who made the climb found a surprisingly large site: a blocked tunnel at one end that pointed straight at Ironforge, a gryphon roost at the other, an inn-like building, and NPCs copied from the Ironforge guards and from the gnomes of the Salt Flats racetrack. Nothing worked, but everything suggested it was meant to open one day. Each patch made the way up a little harder.
How to get to Ironforge Airport and the Gates of IF fast · Pontus Kandelin
Cataclysm: the Ironforge Airfield
With Cataclysm the airport became a real place, the Ironforge Airfield, and a battleground against Dark Iron raiders. Alliance players reach it through Dun Morogh's quests: after Entombed in Ice, Dealing with the Surge and Dark Iron Scheming, Sergeant Bahrum offers Get to the Airfield, and Mathel's Flying Machine at Gol'Bolar Quarry flies you up. Since flying mounts work in the Eastern Kingdoms, anyone can also just fly there.
In WoW Classic
WoW Classic brought back the original, unfinished airport, and climbing to it is again a favourite challenge for explorers. It is still out of bounds, so the video below is the safe way to visit.
From the archive
The airport is quite large. At one end there is a blocked tunnel that seems to head toward Ironforge, and at the other a gryphon roost. None of it works yet, but everything suggests we'll be able to visit it legitimately one day.
Tootsa, defendingthefaith.net
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Videos
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