Chilas Airfield

Chilas Airfield (IATA: CHB, ICAO: OPCL) is an airfield located at Chilas, a town in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.

[1] It was built during the British Raj in 1927.

[1] After independence, Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) further developed it to support the construction of Karakoram Highway.

[1] The airfield was also used by Pakistan Air Force in the 1960s and 1970s and flew C-130 planes from there.

[1][2] This Pakistani airport-related article is a stub.