H-3 Air Base

H-3 Air Base
Al Walid Airbase Camp Korean Village/Camp "KV" (USMC)
Al-Anbar Province, Iraq
H-3 Main Air Base, 1995
H-3 Air Base Location of H-3 Air Base
Coordinates	32°55′46″N 039°44′38″E / 32.92944°N 39.74389°E / 32.92944; 39.74389 (H-3 AB)
Site information
Open to the public	No
Condition	Abandoned
Site history
Built	1935 (1935)
In use	1935 - 2003
Battles/wars	World War II Iran–Iraq War Operation Desert Storm Operation Iraqi Freedom
Airfield information
Runways Direction Length and surface 10/24 undetermined (closed) Concrete 11/29 undetermined (closed) Concrete

H-3 Air Base (code-named 202C, 202D) is part of a cluster of former Iraqi Air Force bases in the Al-Anbar Governorate of Iraq. H3 is located in a remote stretch of Iraq's western desert, about 435 kilometers from Baghdad in western Iraq. It is close to the Syrian–Iraqi border, and near the highway that connects Jordan with Baghdad.

H-3 Main is supported by two dispersal airfields, H-3 Southwest 32°44′48″N 039°35′59″E / 32.74667°N 39.59972°E / 32.74667; 39.59972 (H-3 Southwest AB), and H-3 Northwest 33°04′34″N 039°35′52″E / 33.07611°N 39.59778°E / 33.07611; 39.59778 (H-3 Northwest AB), and a Highway strip, 42 kilometers to the west 32°50′55″N 039°18′28″E / 32.84861°N 39.30778°E / 32.84861; 39.30778 (H-3 Highway Strip). H-3 Southwest is served by a single 9,700-foot runway and has a parallel taxiway that could be used as an alternate runway.