Camp Speicher

Tikrit Air Academy Al Sahra Airfield
Near Tikrit, Saladin Governorate in Iraq
Tikrit Air Academy Shown within Iraq
Coordinates	34°40′39″N 043°33′02″E / 34.67750°N 43.55056°E / 34.67750; 43.55056
Site information
Owner	Ministry of Defence
Operator	Iraqi Air Force
Site history
Built	1973 (1973)
In use	1973–present
Airfield information
Elevation	130 metres (427 ft) AMSL
Runways Direction Length and surface 14/32 3,120 metres (10,236 ft) Asphalt

Majid al Tamimi Airbase, officially known as the Tikrit Air Academy and formerly as Al Sahra Airfield (under Saddam Hussein) is an air installation near Tikrit in northern Iraq. The installation is approximately 170 kilometers (105 mi) north of Baghdad and 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) west of the Tigris River. Prior to 2003, Al Sahra Airfield was the main base of the Iraqi Air Force Air Academy.^[1] The Marines from Task Force Tripoli captured the base from the Iraqi Army during the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq^[2] and turned it over to the United States Army who used it as the headquarters of the United States Division–North (USD-N, formerly Multinational Division, North, (MND-N)). The airfield is served by two main runways measuring 9,600 feet (2,900 m) long with a shorter runway measuring 7,200-foot (2,200 m). The Americans named the airfield after Captain Michael Scott Speicher, a United States Navy pilot who was killed in action in Iraq during the Gulf War.