Mosul Airport
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| Airport type | Unknown (previously Public / Military) | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Iraq | ||||||||||
| Location | Mosul | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 719 ft / 216 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°18′21″N 43°08′51″E / 36.30583°N 43.14750°E | ||||||||||
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Mosul International Airport (IATA: OSM, ICAO: ORBM) is an airport located at Mosul, capital of Nineveh Governorate, Iraq. It became a civil airport in 1990 with the rebuild of the runway (from asphalt to concrete) and construction of a new terminal. After undergoing major renovations to be able to reach international standards and category 1 status, it reopened as a civilian airport on 2 December 2007. On 9 June 2014, it was captured by militants from ISIL.
In February 2017, the Iraqi government recaptured the airport from the ISIL militants.It took Iraqi forces just 4 hours to battle the retreating ISIL opponent and clear them off the airport. The retaking of the airport is part of an offensive, that started on 19th February 2017 to retake Western Mosul from ISIL.
The airfield was used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) at the end of the Mesopotamian Campaign of World War I and from 1920 RAF aircraft squadrons (and from 1922 also Royal Air Force Armoured Car Companies) were based there while Iraq was under the League of Nations British Mandate. RAF Mosul was handed over to the Royal Iraqi Air Force in 1936 under the terms of the 1931 Mandate but was used again by the RAF during World War II. It subsequently became a major Iraqi Air Force base, with at least a squadron of MiG-21s stationed there.
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