Qalat Sikar Air Base, Military air base in Maysan Governorate, Iraq.
Qalat Sikar Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force airfield in Maysan Governorate, southeastern Iraq, rebuilt in the mid-1970s under the "Super-Base" programme. Its concrete runway and series of taxiways remain exposed and deteriorating, while aerial imagery shows the operational structures around the airfield demolished and removed.
Qalat Sikar Air Base was one of several Iraqi Air Force airfields rebuilt in the mid-1970s under the "Super-Base" project, a response to the Arab-Israeli wars of 1967 and 1973. During the Iran-Iraq War it hosted a squadron of MiG-23BN fighters. Coalition airpower struck the base in January 1991 during Operation Desert Storm and again in March 2003, and U.S. Marines seized it in late March 2003.
The United States Marine Corps established Camp Fenway near the base, naming it after the baseball park in Boston, Massachusetts.
The runway and taxiways lie exposed in open desert, with no buildings left standing around the airfield, so there is no shelter or shade on site. The site is in Maysan Governorate, southeastern Iraq, and the coordinates place it near the town of Qalat Sukkar.
The concrete structures of the runway and taxiways remain visible while surrounding operational buildings have deteriorated since 2003.
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