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Construction for the base began in 1974, with the first aircraft landing on 27 November 1980. The base was officially opened by King Hussein of Jordan on 24 June 1981. [3]A 1983 report indicated that the base was used to assemble parts of Chinese Shenyang J-6 fighter aircraft for subsequent delivery to Iraq.
King Faisal Air Base may refer to: King Faisal Air Base (Jordan) , a military installation of the Royal Jordanian Air Force near Al-Jafr, Jordan King Faisal Air Base (Saudi Arabia) , a military installation of the Royal Saudi Air Force in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
King Hussein International Airport: Military airports Al-Jafr: OJKF [1] King Faisal Air Base: Azraq: OJMS [1] Muwaffaq Salti Air Base: Mafraq: OJMF [1] OMF King Hussein Air Base: Ruwaished: OJRW [1] H-4 Air Base: Safawi: OJPH [1] Prince Hassan Air Base: Zarqa: OJKA [1] King Abdullah II Air Base
This airfield was built to support the H4 oil pumping station of the Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline built by the Iraq Petroleum Company between 1932 and 1934 in the Emirate of Transjordan at that time a protectorate of the British Empire.
Prince Zeid bin Hussein, who moved to Jordan when his brother's grandson, King Faisal II of Iraq, was overthrown and murdered in a coup in 1958. Hassan, died at a young age. Hussein bin Ali continued to rule an independent Hejaz, of which he proclaimed himself king, between 1916 and 1924, after the collapse of Ottoman power, with the tacit ...
King Faisal tomb in Baghdad Crowd mourning King Faisal gather in front of the municipality street in Amman, Transjordan in 1933. King Faisal died of a heart attack on 8 September 1933 in Bern, Switzerland. [2] He was 48 years old at the time of his death. Faisal was succeeded on the throne by his eldest son, Ghazi.
A map of Jordan with Saudi Arabia to the south-east; the large triangle of land in Saudi Arabia that points towards the Dead Sea is apocryphally known as "Winston's Hiccup". The Jordan–Saudi Arabia border is 731 km (454 mi) in length and runs from the Gulf of Aqaba in the south-west to the tripoint with Iraq in the north-east. [1]
The Emirate of Transjordan (Arabic: إمارة شرق الأردن, romanized: Imārat Sharq al-Urdun, lit. 'the emirate east of the Jordan'), officially known as the Amirate of Trans-Jordan, was a British protectorate established on 11 April 1921, [4] [1] [2] which remained as such until achieving formal independence as the Kingdom of Jordan in 1946.