Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (IATA: TKH, ICAO: VTPI) is a Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) facility in central Thailand, approximately 144 miles (240 km) northwest of Bangkok in Takhli District, Nakhon Sawan Province.

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base Interactive Map "Takhli RTAF Base Interactive Map" will show the layout of the USAF operations area as it was during the Vietnam War. Very little remains of this area today.

Takhli really was originally a Thai Air Base, but it was used by the U. S. Air Force as a front-line combat base for the Vietnam War. Political considerations limited America’s willingness to build new bases, but we started upgrading five Thai bases to meet USAF needs in 1961.

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base web page. Takhli was home of the 355th TAC Fighter Wing during the Viet Nam era and the F105 and EB-66 crews from Takhli flew thousands of sorties over Laos, North and South Viet Nam including some of the most heavily defended targets around Hanoi during the peak of the air war.

Historical information about USAF units stationed at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base, Thailand

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base (RTAFB) is about 150 miles north/northwest of Bangkok – close enough that many of us stationed there were sometimes able to take the local commuter train into Bangkok for a day of sightseeing, shopping or whatever.

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base is a Royal Thai Air Force facility, located in Central Thailand, approximately 144 miles (240 km) northwest of Bangkok in Takhli district, Nakhon Sawan Province, near the city of Nakhon Sawan.

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base was established in the 1950s as a RTAF base. In the late 1950s, the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters.

Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base is located 130 miles north north-west of Bangkok. United States Air Force personnel began arriving at Takhli in early 1961 to support a detachment of F-100 Supersabres from the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB, N.M.

In nine days, they deployed 72 F-4D Phantom IIs of the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing from Holloman AFB, New Mexico, to Takhli. The move included more than 3,000 personnel and 1,600 tons of cargo. On 5 May about 35 members of an PACAF advance party returned to Takhli to prepare the facility for re-opening and activation.