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Bagram Airfield-BAF, also known as Bagram Air Base [3] (IATA: OAI, ICAO: OAIX), is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) southeast of Charikar in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan. It is under the Afghan Ministry of Defense .
OAHR (HEA) – Herat International Airport (Khwaja Abdullah Ansari International Airport) – Herat; OAIX (OAI) – Bagram Airfield – Bagram near Charikar; OAJL (JAA) – Jalalabad Airport – Jalalabad (currently military only - new civilian airport being planned) OAKB (KBL) – Kabul International Airport (Khwaja Rawash Airport) – Kabul
Bagram hosts the strategic Bagram Airfield, from which most US air activity in Afghanistan took place. The runway was built in 1976, and it was a Soviet air base from 1979 to 1989. There was also a Provincial Reconstruction Team when the US were present in Afghanistan and implemented their counter-insurgency strategy.
Afghanistan has four international airports which are expected to increase in the future. [1] The Kabul International Airport serves the population of Kabul and the surrounding areas; the Maulana Jalaluddin Balkhi International Airport serves northern Afghanistan; the Ahmad Shah Baba International Airport in Kandahar serves the southern parts of the country; and the Khwaja Abdullah Ansari ...
The U.S. military left Bagram Airfield - its key base in Afghanistan - in the dead of night without telling the Afghans, the base's new commander said.
The Taliban hold a military parade to celebrate the third anniversary of their takeover of Afghanistan, at the Bagram Air Base, in Bagram, Parwan province, Aug. 14, 2024.
National Airlines Flight 102 (N8102/NCR102) was a cargo flight operated by National Airlines between Camp Shorabak (formerly Camp Bastion) near the city of Lashkargah in Afghanistan and Al Maktoum Airport in Dubai, with a refueling stop at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
April 29, 2013 – National Airlines Flight 102, a Boeing 747-400BCF operated under contract for NATO forces en route to Dubai, United Arab Emirates crashed shortly after takeoff from Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The plane's operator, National Air Cargo, confirmed that all seven American civilian crew members were killed. [104]