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.

Sep 27, 2021 · Air America, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and a secret air base in Takhli, Thailand, known as “The Ranch,” have a storied history that merged during the Vietnam War. The U.S. military operated overtly and the CIA operated covertly from 1960 to 1975 at “The Ranch.”

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.

CIA Tibetan Operations - Article from American Spectator magazine, mentioning very early use of Takhli as operating base for CIA resupply of Tibetan freedom fighters in the late 1950s.

Nov 19, 2020 · Takhli RTAFB had been used by the US Air Force, but all Air Force units had moved out before 1970. BGen Manor and Colonel Simons knew of the fact that the CIA had a secret compound there in 1970 and decided it would …

Dec 5, 2021 · SR-71 Blackbird pilot tells the story of when he did an emergency landing to a CIA compound in Thailand after a double engine flame out while on a spy mission during the Vietnam War

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.

On the Saturday night of 20 November 1970 a C-130 picked us up from Takhli where we had been housed in the CIA compound since deploying from Eglin. The NKP flight line was blacked out, even the tower people had been relieved and it was empty.

Aug 31, 2018 · An exception was made for Son Tay, but not for the CIA. The joint force began deployments from Eglin Nov. 10, and by Nov. 14 was in a secure area of Takhli Air Base in 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.