| Iswahjudi Air Force Base | |||||||||
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Pangkalan Angkatan Udara Iswahjudi | |||||||||
| Maospati, Magetan Regency, East Java in Indonesia | |||||||||
 Iswahjudi Air Force Base gate | |||||||||
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| Coordinates | 07°36′56.76″S 111°26′02.82″E / 7.6157667°S 111.4341167°E | ||||||||
| Type | Type A Air Force Base | ||||||||
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| Owner | Indonesian Air Force | ||||||||
| Controlled by | National Air Operations Command | ||||||||
| Condition | Operational | ||||||||
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| Site history | |||||||||
| Built | 1939 (as Maospati Vliegveld) | ||||||||
| Built by | Royal Netherlands East Indies Army Air Force | ||||||||
| In use | 1939–present | ||||||||
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| Current commander | Air Commodore Firman Dwi Cahyono | ||||||||
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| Identifiers | ICAO: WARI | ||||||||
| Elevation | 110 metres (361 ft) AMSL | ||||||||
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Iswahjudi Air Force Base, Iswahjudi Airport, Iswahjudi Airbase or Iswahyudi is an airbase operated by the Indonesian Air Force. It is the main base of several squadrons of Indonesian jet fighters, including:
- 3rd Air Squadron "Dragon", operating F-16AM/BM Fighting Falcon
- 14th Air Squadron "Eagles", operating F-16C/D Fighting Falcon
- 15th Air Squadron, operating KAI T-50i Golden Eagle
The airbase is located at Maospati, Magetan, near the city of Madiun on the west side of East Javan's capital Surabaya. It is named after Iswahjudi, an Indonesian Air Force officer who, together with Halim Perdanakusuma, was killed in an air crash while returning to Indonesia from Thailand in 1947.[2]
Currently, the airport is not used for civilian flights and is one of only two airbases exclusively used by the Air Force
- ^ a b "Iswahyudi". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 7 October 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Sudarmanto 1996, p. 247.