Chandhar Airbase
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Chandhar Air Force Base, or Chandhar AFB, is an Air Force Base
located near Chandhar
, a town in the province of Punjab in Pakistan
. The Air Force Base is controlled by Pakistan Air Force.
of 620 feet (189 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
designated 05/23 with an asphalt
surface measuring 9000 by 75 ft (2,743.2 by 22.9 ).
Pakistan Air Force
The Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport...
located near Chandhar
Chandhar
Chandhar is small town in Punjab, Pakistan.-See also:* Chandhar Airbase...
, a town in the province of Punjab in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
. The Air Force Base is controlled by Pakistan Air Force.
Facilities
The airport lies at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 620 feet (189 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
designated 05/23 with an asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
surface measuring 9000 by 75 ft (2,743.2 by 22.9 ).