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PAF Base Kohat

Summary

Airport type

Operator

Location

Elevation AMSL

1,650 ft / 503 m

Map

PAF Base Kohat

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	7,717	2,352	Asphalt

PAF Base Kohat (IATA: OHT, ICAO: OPKT) is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) located in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. While it currently serves as a training base for PAF airmen, the facility was also used as a major operational base of the Royal Air Force during British colonial rule.

Notable incidents

On 20 February 2003, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed when their Fokker F27 crashed into the hills near the airbase. The aircraft was inbound to Kohat from PAF Base Nur Khan. Among the deceased were two Air Vice-Marshals and Mir's wife.^[1]^[2]^[3]
On 6 August 2007, two Pakistan Air Force personnel and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on Kohat Road, near the PAF airbase.^[4]

Leadership

Ministers	Defence Secretary Defence Production
Joint Chiefs of Staff	Chairman Chief of Army Staff Chief of Air Staff Chief of Naval Staff

Services

Inter-Services	Intelligence Public Relations Selection Board National Command Authority Nursing Service Armed Forces Band

Paramilitary

Personnel

Ranks and insignia	Army Navy Marines Air Force

Business interests

Foundations	Fauji (Joint) Askari (Army) Bahria (Navy) Shaheen (Air Force)

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