OPRQ Rafiqui Air Base IFR

  • Name
    Rafiqui Air Base
  • ICAO / GPS
    OPRQ / OPRQ
  • Type
  • Restriction
  • Region
  • Timezone
    8:08 am (PKT)
  • Municipality
    Shorkot
  • Coordinates
    30° 45′ 29″ N 72° 16′ 57″ E
  • Elevation
    492 ft (150 m MSL)

About Rafiqui Air Base

Pakistan Air Force 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.

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