Tal Afar airfield

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Tal Afar airfield
Herkules C130 at the start on Tal Afar (2007)
Characteristics
ICAO code ORTF
Coordinates

36 ° 16 '59 "  N , 42 ° 24' 10"  E Coordinates: 36 ° 16 '59 "  N , 42 ° 24' 10"  E
Height above MSL 304 m (997  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 11 km south of Tal Afar
Start-and runway
13/31 3000 m × 44 m asphalt / concrete



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The airfield Tal Afar is located eleven kilometers south of the Iraqi city of Tal Afar and about seventy kilometers west of Mosul .

The partly asphalted and partly concrete runway is 3000 m long and 44 m wide. At the ends of the runway there are a total of twelve Hardened Aircraft Shelters or aircraft bunkers of Yugoslav design, so-called "Yugos". The airfield itself was laid out based on the Soviet model before 1985 .

The base of the Iraqi Air Force was occupied by the Islamic State and was captured on November 17, 2016 by the Shiite militia al-Hashd al-She'bī advancing from the southeast as part of the Battle of Mosul .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Iraq ICAO Location Finder. In: FAA. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ ORTF Tall Afar Airport. In: SkyVector Aeronautical Charts. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ https://www.rt.com/news/167928-iraq-isis-tal-afar/
  4. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/16/middleeast/iraq-mosul-zahraa/