Prince Hassan Air Base
Prince Hassan Air Base (قاعدة الأمير حسن الجوية) is a Royal Jordanian Air Force base near the town of Safawi in Mafraq Governorate, Jordan, about 100 km east-northeast of Amman. The airfield sits at about 2,210 feet (674 m) above sea level and has a single main runway, 3,000 metres long (13/31), surfaced with asphalt and concrete.
It began as a landing strip for the Kirkuk–Haifa oil pipeline’s H-5 pumping station and was used by Royal Air Force and Iraq Petroleum Company mail flights between Baghdad, Amman and Cairo. It opened as a military base in 1969 and was named after Prince Hassan bin Talal, then Crown Prince of Jordan. The base has hosted several RJAF units: No. 9 Squadron with F-104 Starfighters; the Fighter Weapons Instructor School moved there in 1994. No. 6 Fighter Reconnaissance Squadron has been based there in the past, and No. 17 Squadron with F-5E/F Tiger IIs was stationed there in 2015.
Foreign forces have used Prince Hassan: the United States Air Force has used the base since the 1980s, with regular C-17 traffic noted in 2017. The French Air and Space Force began operating from the base in 2014, initially with six Mirage 2000s; in 2017 these were replaced by four Rafales.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 08:18 (CET).