PAF Base Kohat

Pakistan Air Force military installation

PAF Base Kohat

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PAF Base Kohat

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Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	7,717	2,352	Asphalt

PAF Base Kohat (IATA: OHT, ICAO: OPKT) is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) located in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. While it currently serves as a training base for PAF airmen, the facility was also used as a major operational base of the Royal Air Force during British colonial rule.

Notable incidents

On 20 February 2003, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed when their Fokker F27 crashed into the hills near the airbase. The aircraft was inbound to Kohat from PAF Base Nur Khan. Among the deceased were two Air Vice-Marshals and Mir's wife.^[1]^[2]^[3]
On 6 August 2007, two Pakistan Air Force personnel and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on Kohat Road, near the PAF airbase.^[4]

References

^ News report on the death of Mushaf Ali Mir Archived 2007-03-12 at the Wayback Machine TajaNews
^ Neutral report on the accident killing Mushaf Ali Mir from Aviation Safety Network
^ News report on the death of Mushaf Ali Mir from the Daily Excelsior suggesting a connection with Osama bin Laden
^ Two PAF men, child injured in bomb blast Dawn Newspaper

External links

Kohat Airbase at Global Security

Pakistan Armed Forces

Military history of Pakistan

Leadership

Commander-in-Chief
- President of Pakistan
Chief Executive
- Prime Minister of Pakistan
Parliament
- Senate Committee on Defence
- National Assembly Committee on Defence
Cabinet Committee on National Security
National Security Council