Karshi/Khanabad Alternate names K2, Karshi Khanabad, Camp Stronghold Freedom (US), Kandabad (erroneous spelling) Location 11 km SE Karshi Country UZ ICAO UTSL Coordinates 38° 50.0' N 65° 55.3' E (38.8333,65.9217) Elevation 416 m (1365 ft) Runway 07/25 2498x40 m (8195x131 ft) 077-257°T (CONC) Usage Military Comments and history Home to 87 ORAP flying Yak-28Rs in the mid 1970s34. It acquired Su-24MR in the 1980s. In the early 1980s this was a Tu-16 base (alongside Mary and Semipalitinsk) for Afghanistan bombing operations. Now operated by Uzbekistan Air Force. The U.S. Air Force used the facility from October 2001 to July 2005 as the central base for Afghanistan operations; the lease was terminated due to increasing tensions between the U.S. and Uzbekistan.     Mapping links Google Earth - http://maps.google.com/maps?&q=38.8333,65.9217&spn=0.1,0.1&output=kml Google Maps (map) - http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8333,65.9217&spn=0.1,0.1&t=m&q=38.8333,65.9217 Google Maps (sat) - http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8333,65.9217&spn=0.1,0.1&t=h&q=38.8333,65.9217 Wikimapia - http://wikimapia.org/#lat=38.8333&lon=65.9217&z=14&l=1&m=b (Russian viewing recommended) Geohack - http://stable.toolserver.org/geohack/geohack.php?params=38.8333_N_65.9217_E_type:city Sources 34 Yakovlev Yak-25/-26/-27/-28: Yakovlev's Tactical Twinjets. Yefim Gordon. Computations and data compilation: Tim Vasquez Coordinate data: Department of Defense / Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) Elevation data: Department of Defense / Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) Runway data: Department of Defense / Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) ICAO identifier assignment: Department of Defense / Digital Aeronautical Flight Information File (DAFIF) Return to index Dataset introduction and description Please direct comments and corrections here ©2005,2009 Tim Vasquez All rights reserved