Pakistan Air Force Base, Mushaf (formerly PAF Base Sargodha), IATA: MSF, ICAO: OPMH), is a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase situated at Sargodha in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is designated as a "Major Operational Base" or "MOB" by the PAF.[1]
It was known as PAF Base Sargodha until 2003, when it was renamed in honour of the former Base Commander and Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir, whose aircraft crashed on a routine flight near Kohat in February 2003.[2][3]
The PAF's Central Air Command (CAC), the Combat Commanders' School (CCS), and the PAF Airpower Centre of Excellence (PAF ACE) are based at PAF Base Mushaf, PAF Base Mushaf is the most elite and widely operational base in Pakistan, consisting of the highest equipped aircraft and squadrons and the best trained pilots and commanders.
^PAF Base Mushaf on Scramble (Dutch Aviation Society) website Retrieved 30 September 2021
^Funeral held for Pakistan air chief (Mushaf Ali Mir) BBC News website, Published 21 February 2003, Retrieved 30 September 2021
^Sargodha Air Base named after Mushaf Dawn (newspaper), Published 30 April 2003, Retrieved 30 September 2021
Pakistan Air Force Base, Mushaf (formerly PAFBase Sargodha), IATA: MSF, ICAO: OPMH), is a Pakistan Air Force (PAF) airbase situated at Sargodha in the...
Airport in 1987 and then to PAFBaseMushaf, where it presently continues to function. There is an operations wing present at the base today which provides an...
Pakistan Air Force (PAF) based at PAFBaseMushaf, Sargodha, Pakistan. Operationally, PAF ACE has the status of a Wing under the PAF's Central Air Command...
at the Kirana Hills. The Kirana Hills forms a larger part of the Mushaf Air Force Base in Sargodha, which falls into its area of command. In 1978–79, the...
Creates PAF's "Aggressor Squadron" along the border with India in the Mushaf area". 20 March 2019. "Pride of Pakistan JF-17 Thunder inducted into PAF CCS"...
Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed when their Fokker F27 crashed into the hills near the airbase. The aircraft was inbound to Kohat from PAF Base...
office in March 2022, he commanded the Combat Commanders' School at PAFBaseMushaf. Mahmood was commissioned in GD Pilot branch of the Pakistan Air Force...
squadron, a flying wing, two operational air bases PAF Base Shahbaz and PAFBaseMushaf and a regional air command. He is a graduate of Combat Commanders'...
Karachi and other major cities. Pakistan's largest airbase, PAFBaseMushaf (formerly PAFBase Sargodha), is situated in Sargodha and hosts the headquarters...
Retrieved 7 March 2022 Active PAF Bases Pakistan Air Force website, Retrieved 7 March 2022 Air Bases of PAF at fas.org PAF Falcons - Battle Lines of the PAF...
that Mianwali would be upgraded into a satellite airbase for PAFBaseMushaf (then PAFBase Sargodha) during the 1965 Indo-Pak War to act as an alternate...
Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir NI(M), HI(M), SI(M), SBt (Punjabi, Urdu: مصحف على مير; 5 March 1947 – 20 February 2003) was a Pakistani four-star air...
in Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan's largest airbase, PAFBaseMushaf (formerly PAFBase Sargodha), is situated here and hosts the headquarters of...
delivered to Pakistan in 1983, the first F-16 arriving at PAFBase Sargodha (now known as PAFBaseMushaf) on 15 January 1983 flown by Squadron Leader Shahid...
Location Combined Military Hospital Army Sargodha Garrison Fauji Foundation Hospital Army Satellite Town A-Block PAF Hospital Air Force PAFBaseMushaf...
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