Shaibah Air Base is a former Iraqi Air Force

Iraqi Air Force

The Iraqi Air Force or IQAF is the military branch in Iraq responsible for the policing of international borders, surveillance of national assets and aerial operations...

 base in the Basrah Governorate of Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

. It was captured by Coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

Overview

Shaibah Airport, formerly Shaibah Air Base is today a small civilian airport south of Basara in far southeastern Iraq near the Kuwaiti Border. It was built in the 1980s for the Iraqi Air Force and abandoned after Operation Desert Storm in 1991. It has been refurbished and is now used as a civil airfield, with light private planes using the facilities.