PAF Base Rafiqui (original) (raw)

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PAF Base Rafiqui, formerly known as PAF Base Shorkot (ICAO: OPRQ), is a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase located near Shorkot, Jhang District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is around 337 km south of Islamabad. The base is served by a single 10,000-foot runway and a parallel taxiway that could be used for emergency landing and recovery of aircraft. The base was renamed in honour of Squadron Leader Sarfaraz Ahmed Rafiqui, a highly decorated fighter pilot who led raids into enemy territory during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Rafiqui is famous for assisting his fellow pilots over enemy territory despite being heavily outnumbered even after the guns of his aircraft had jammed. (en)

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https://web.archive.org/web/20060322131219/http:/www.pakaviation.com/PVA/Library/World_Airport_Data/airport_dtl.php%3FDAFIF_ID=PK16430

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Air Cdre Muhammad Shoaib Khan (en)

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OPRQ (en)

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Shorkot (en)

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Rafiqui Airbase (en)

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Shahi Bengali Frontier (en)

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* No. 15 Squadron *No. 14 Squadron * No. 25 Squadron *No. 27 Squadron *No. 83 SAR Squadron (en)

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Military (en)

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PAF Base Rafiqui, formerly known as PAF Base Shorkot (ICAO: OPRQ), is a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase located near Shorkot, Jhang District, in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is around 337 km south of Islamabad. The base is served by a single 10,000-foot runway and a parallel taxiway that could be used for emergency landing and recovery of aircraft. (en)

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