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Iraqi Mirages. The Dassault Mirage Family in Service with the Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988. Helion & Company Publishing. ISBN 978-1-912-390311. Cully, George W., "Adapt or fail : the USAF’s role in reconstituting the Iraqi Air Force 2004-2007" Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama : Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2016.
The Iraqi Air Force was founded in 1931, during the period of British control in Iraq after their defeat of the Ottomans in the First World War, with only a few pilots. The Iraqi Air Force operated mostly British aircraft until the 14 July Revolution in 1958, when the new Iraqi government began increased diplomatic relationships with the Soviet ...
List of Iraqi Air Force aircraft squadrons; 0–9. 2nd Squadron (Iraq) 3rd Squadron (Iraq) 9th Squadron (Iraq) 23rd Squadron (Iraq) 70th Squadron (Iraq) 87th Squadron ...
Iraqi Air Force personnel (2 C, 2 P) S. Squadrons of Iraq (9 P) Pages in category "Iraqi Air Force" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Iraqi Air Force. Iraq received its first 16 Hunter F.6s in 1957. They were assigned to No. 6 Squadron. [1] 22 additional Hunter F.59s were ordered in 1963. [2]They were also taken up by No. 6 Squadron: starting in 1964, its original F.6s were sent back to the United Kingdom for overhauls and upgrades to a standard similar to the new aircraft. [3]
List of active Indian Air Force aircraft squadrons; List of Iraqi Air Force aircraft squadrons; List of Israeli Air Force aircraft squadrons; L.
The squadron was reactivated in 2005 at Ali Air Base. [10] It received three C-130Es formerly operated by the United States Air Force. [11]The squadron made the new air force’s first C-130 flight beyond Iraq "..during the first week of February (2005) when, under AST mentorship, a five-man crew flew from Ali AB to Amman. [12]
In 1974, the squadron finally converted to MiG-21MFs. [15] As of 1980, it was based at Firnas Air Base, near Mosul, with a detachment at Abu Ubayda Air Base. [16] Reportedly, in 2002, the 9th Squadron, and the 79th and 89th Squadrons, were respectively flying MiG-21s and Mirage F1EQs from Qayyarah Airfield West. [17]