H-3 complex

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)Coordinates: 32°55′46″N 039°44′38″E / 32.92944°N 39.74389°E / 32.92944; 39.74389 (H-3 AB)
Site information
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
Garrison information
Garrison	RAF Iraq Levies (1939–1945 Iraqi Air Force (1958–2003) Coalition Forces (2003)
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. It is a cluster of airfields 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.