Imagery of the Al Taqaddum Airbase
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Overview of the Middle East with Iraq in the center
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CIA Map of Iraq
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Tactical Pilotage Chart of the Al Taqaddum Airbase
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Russian 1:200,000 scale map of Al Taqaddum. Airbase details are absent from this map.
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CIB overview Al Taqaddum Airbase as of 1995.
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Al Taqaddum is one of the few Iraqi air bases not inside the "No-Fly Zone."
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 Ikonose Brose imagery of Al Taqaddum Airbase as 19 February 2002.
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Al Taqaddum is served by two runways measuring 13,000 and 12,000 feet respectively.
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There are at least 24 aircraft dispersal revetments and hardened aicraft shelters on the south side of the base.
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A search team discovers a MiG-25 Foxbat buried beneath the sands in Iraq. Several MiG-25 interceptors and Su-25 ground attack jets have been found buried at Al-Taqqadum air field west of Baghdad.
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