Iswahyudi Air Force Base

Iswahyudi Air Force Base, Iswahyudi Airport or Iswahyudi Airfield is an airfield operated by the Indonesian Air Force. It is the main base of several squadrons of Indonesian jet fighters, including:

• Skadron Udara 3 "Sarang Naga" ("Dragon's Nest), equipped with F-16A/B Block-15 OCU, F-16C/D Block 25;[3]
• Skadron Udara 14 "The Eagles", equipped with F-5E/F-5F and Su-27/30;
• Skadron Udara 15 "The Typhoons", equipped with KAI T-50 Golden Eagle.

Iswahyudi Airfield Lapangan Udara Iswahyudi
IATA: MDN ICAO: WARI
Summary
Airport type	Military
Operator	Indonesian Air Force
Location	Madiun, East Java, Indonesia
Elevation AMSL	361 ft / 110 m
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 17R/35L 3,050 10,007 Asphalt[1] 17L/35R 2,575 8,448 Asphalt[2]

The airfield is located at Maospati, Magetan, near the city of Madiun on the west side of East Javan capital Surabaya. It is named after Iswahyudi, an Indonesian air force officer who, together with Halim Perdanakusuma, was killed in an air crash while returning to Indonesia from Thailand in 1947.[4]

Currently, the airport is not used for civilian flights.

References

1. http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=ID53678&sch=madiun
2. http://worldaerodata.com/wad.cgi?id=ID53678&sch=madiun
3. http://warnesysworld.com/final-six-f-16-block-25s-indonesian-air-force-completed/
4. Sudarmanto 1996, p. 247. sfn error: no target: CITEREFSudarmanto1996 (help)