07°36′56.76″S 111°26′02.82″E / 7.6157667°S 111.4341167°E
Iswahjudi Air Force Base Pangkalan Angkatan Udara Iswahjudi | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
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Location | Magetan, East Java, Indonesia | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 361 ft / 110 m | ||||||||||||||
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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:
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
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