Ali Air Base
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| Ali Air Base Tallil AirBase |
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| IATA: none – ICAO: ORTL – LID: TAL | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Military: Airbase | ||
| Operator | U.S. Air Force | ||
| Serves | Nasiriyah | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 20 ft / 6 m | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 12L/30R | 10,935 | 3,333 | Concrete |
| 12R/30L | 9,991 | 3,045 | Concrete |
| no ILS | |||
Ali Base (ICAO: ORTL) is a military airbase located near Nasiriyah, Iraq. It was formerly known as Tallil Air Base. The base, called Camp Adder by the United States Army, has United States forces on it, including , as well as being home to coalition forces from Australia and Romania. Camp Adder is also the home to three Provincial Reconstruction Teams for the provinces of Dhi Qar, Muthanna, and Maysan. The Dhi Qar team is Italian led, while the Muthanna and Maysan teams are headed by U.S. State Department officers.
The airfield is served by two main runways measuring 12,000 and 9,700 feet. It was a fighter base before the 1991 Gulf War when it was heavily damaged. According to the Gulf War Air Power Survey, Tallil had 36 hardened aircraft shelters. At the each end of the main runway are hardened aircraft shelters knowns as "trapezoids" or "Yugos" which were built by Yugoslavian contractors some time prior to 1985. Tallil occupies 30 square kilometers and is protected by 22 kilometers of security perimeter.
The 332d Air Expeditionary Wing was at Ali Base for a time before moving to Balad Air Base in January 2004. The 407th Air Expeditionary Group remains at Ali Base. The 407th Air Expeditionary Group operated C-130 Hercules and trained more than 100 Iraqi Airmen on how to maintain and fly the cargo airplanes until February 2005, until the Iraqi Air Force's 23rd squadron was fully trained and relocated to Kirkuk Air Base.
The ancient city of Ur is located within the security perimeter for Ali Base, and its ancient ziggurat is visible from nearly every area of the base.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Ali Times - 407th Air Expeditionary Group Public Affairs
- 407th Air Expeditionary Group, GlobalSecurity.org
- photos
- Airplane Graveyard
- Airport information for ORTL at World Aero Data
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