PAF Base Kohat
IATA: OHT ICAO: OPKT
Summary
Airport type	Military airbase
Operator	Pakistan Air Force
Location	Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Elevation AMSL	1,650 ft / 503 m
Coordinates	33°34′14″N 71°26′22″E / 33.57056°N 71.43944°E / 33.57056; 71.43944
Map
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 14/32 7,717 2,352 Asphalt

PAF Base Kohat (IATA: OHT, ICAO: OPKT) is an airbase of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) located in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. While it currently serves as a training base for PAF airmen, the facility was also used as a major operational base of the Royal Air Force during British colonial rule.

Notable incidents

• On 20 February 2003, Air Chief 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 Nur Khan. Among the deceased were two Air Vice-Marshals and Mir's wife.^[1][2][3]
• On 6 August 2007, two Pakistan Air Force personnel and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on Kohat Road, near the PAF airbase.^[4]