Qayyarah Airfield West
Qayyarah Airfield West is an Iraqi Air Force base in the Qayyarah subdistrict of Mosul District in northern Iraq. It was captured by U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.- Type: Aerodrome
- Description: air establishment in Mosul, Republic of Iraq
- Also known as: “Qayyarah Airbase”, “Qayyarah West”, and “مطار قيارة الغربي”
Qayyarah Airfield West
- Categories: military installation and transportation
- Location: Mosul District, Nineveh Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
35.76441° or 35° 45′ 52″ north
Longitude
43.12302° or 43° 7′ 23″ east
Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)
IATA airport code
RQW
ICAO airport code
ORQW
Open location code
8H75Q47F+Q6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
aeroway=aerodrome
OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=military
OpenStreetMap feature
military=airfield
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Qayyarah Airfield West” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قاعدة القيارة الجوية”
- Cebuano: “Qayyarah West”
- Central Kurdish: “بنکەی ئاسمانیی قەیارە”
- German: “Qayyarah Airbase”
- German: “Qāʿidat al-Qayyāra al-dschawwiyya”
- Japanese: “ケイヤラ・ウエスト空港”
- Japanese: “ケイヤラ・ウェスト空軍基地”
- Japanese: “ケイヤラ西飛行場”
- Persian: “پایگاه هوایی قیاره”
- Swedish: “Qayyarah West”
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