Qatar Emiri Air Force

Leeming (EGXE) RAF

RWY 16/34 POS 54°17'32"N 001°32'07"W ELEV 132 ft
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Joint Hawk Training Squadron

Hawk Mk167

The Joint Hawk Training Squadron (JHTS) is a joint Royal Air Force (RAF) - Qatari Emirati Air Force (QEAF) training unit, using Hawk Mk167 jets owned by the QEAF

Al-Quwwat Al-Jawiyah Al-Amiriyah Al-Qatariyah

The Qatar Emiri Air Force ordered 24 EF2000 Typhoon fighters. The EF2000s are operating in 7 and 12 Squadron from Flying Wing 1 "Al Thariyat" at Tamim Airbase.

Qatar MoD

No more than 24 AH-64E Apache helicopter has been delivered to form 41 Squadron under Flying Wing 4 at Doha airbase.

Lars Kitschke

Al Udaid (OTBH) Al-Udeid AB
RWY 16/34 POS 25°07'02"N 051°18'54"E ELEV 130ft Google Maps
Group	Wing	Squadron	Aircraft Type(s)	Badge / Tail
Al Zaeem Mohamed Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah Air College	Flying Wing Al Zaeem Air Academy	6th Squadron	H125 AW169 (sold to Dominican Republic)

		31st Squadron	MFI-395 Super Mushshak PC-21

		?? Squadron	PC-24 (2 for pilot training, VIP transportation)

		IFTS (International Flight Training School)	M346 (6 on order)

Airlift Group	Flying Wing 8	10th Squadron	C-17A

		12th Squadron	C-130J-30

Helicopter Group	Flying Wing 3	20th Squadron	AW139

		21st Squadron	AW139

		22nd Squadron	AW139

	Flying Wing 4	41st Squadron	AH-64E (QRA)

Fighter Combat Group	Flying Wing 5 Ababil ('Flock of Birds')	51st Squadron	F-15QA

		52nd Squadron	F-15QA

		53rd Squadron	F-15QA

The Qatar Emiri Air Force took delivery of 36 F-15QA Ababil fighters to equip three squadrons. No. 51 Squadron was the first established unit, part of Flying Wing 5 at Al Udaid airbase.

Boeing

The Qatar Emiri Air Force operates 39 AW139s in 3 squadrons (20, 21 and 22 Sq) of Flying Wing 2 from Doha airbase.

Lars Kitschke

Al-Shamal (--)
RWY 18/36 POS 25°45'50"N 051°17'30"E ELEV 110 ft Google Maps
Group	Wing	Squadron	Aircraft Type(s)	Badge / Tail
UAV Group	Reconnaissance and Surveillance Center	UAV squadron	Bayraktar TB2

		UAV Training Unit	MQ-9B Sea Guardian (?)

The designation of the UAV squadron at Al-Shamal is not clear. It seems to operate under the flag of te Department of Defense "Reconnaissance and Surveillance Center" or RCS.

No. 9 Squadron operates some 20 NH90-TTH helicopters under Flying Wing 2 from Doha airbase for troop and transport missions.

Lars Kitschke

The Qatar Emiri Air Force is going to operate 36 Rafale fighters in two squadrons. The first Rafale unit, 1 Squadron 'Al Adiyat', part of Flying Wing 6 is based at Tamim airbase.

(Konya, June 2021, Marijn van den Burgt)

Doha (OTBD)
RWY 16/34 POS 25°15'40"N 051°33'54"E ELEV 35 ft Google Maps
Group	Wing	Squadron	Aircraft Type(s)	Badge / Tail
Helicopter Group	Flying Wing 2	8th Squadron	NH90-NFH

		9th Squadron	NH90-TTH

	Flying Wing 3	23rd Squadron (Life Flight)	AW139

	Flying Wing 4	41st Squadron	AH-64E

		42nd Squadron (??)	AH-64E

At least one LifeFlight AW139 helicopter is usually present at Hamad General Hospital, Doha.

Qatar received eight Boeing C-17A Globemaster IIIs. They are flying in 10 Squadron from Flying Wing 8. Some of them look like civil aircraft, but real military spotters prefer the all grey military looks

(Doha, December 2012, Martin Fox)

A QEAF C-130J-30 Hercules from 12 Squadron during its visit at Amsterdam Schiphol in 2014.

(Amsterdam-Schiphol, January 2014, Danny Reijnen)

Tamim (--)
RWY 16/34 POS 25°28'06"N 050°59'59"E ELEV 90 ft Google Maps
Group	Wing	Squadron	Aircraft Type(s)	Badge / Tail
Fighter Combat Group	Flying Wing 1 Al Dhariyat (The Winnowing Winds)	7th Squadron	Typhoon Typhoon T

		11th Squadron	Hawk Mk167 (Leeming, UK)

		12th Squadron	Typhoon Typhoon T

	Flying Wing 6 Al Adiyat ('The War Horses')	1st Squadron	Rafale EQ Rafale DQ

		61st Squadron	Rafale EQ Rafale DQ

		62nd Squadron	Rafale EQ Rafale DQ

The first Typhoons arrived Qatar on August 27th, 2022.