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English: Pictured is a U.S 109th Airlift Squadron Minnesota Air National Guard C-130 H3 Hercules at Kandahar Airfield in 2010.

The 109th Airlift Squadron (109 AS) is a unit of the Minnesota Air National Guard 133d Airlift Wing located at Minneapolis–Saint Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minnesota.

Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar Provence in Afghanistan was used by the RAF for combat operations from 2001 to 2014.

Part of Kandahar Airfield was known as RAF Kandahar, It operated RAF, Fleet Air Arm and Army Air Corps aircraft and was one end of the "Air Bridge" that started in RAF Brize Norton in the UK.All other ISAF airborne forces were also based there.

Kandahar International Airport as it was called originally is located some 10 miles South-East of the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan.

It is the country’s second international airport and one of its biggest military bases, it has the space for over two hundred military aircraft.

  • Organization: RAF
  • Object Name: 38GpPO-Official-20100604-174-015
  • Category: MOD
  • Supplemental Categories: Foreign Aircraft, Aircraft, Equipment, Afghanistan, Theatres, Operations
  • Keywords: HERCULES, Tanker and Transport, Aircraft, Reconnaissance, International, Equipment, Dry, Hot, Climate, Weather, Afghanistan, airfield, Kandahar, KAF, 109th Airlift Squadron, Air National Guard, 109 AS
  • Country: Afghanistan
Date Taken on 4 June 2010, 13:21:07
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Author SAC Tim Laurence
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