Ismailia Air Base

{{Short description|Egyptian airforce helicopter base}}

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{{Infobox military installation

| name = Ismailia Air Base
RAF Ismailia
RAF Moascar

| ensign = Flag of Egypt.svg

| ensign_size = 70px

| native_name = {{langx|ar|قاعدة الاسماعيلية الجوية}}

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| location = Ismailia, Ismailia Governorate

| country = Egypt

| image = 458 Squadron RAAF personnel Egypt 1942 AWM SUK10649.jpg

| image_size = 275px

| caption= Members of No. 458 Squadron RAAF at RAF Ismailia, 1942

| type = Air Base

| coordinates = {{Coord|30|35|53.75|N|32|14|12.86|E|region:EG_type:airport|display=inline,title}}

| pushpin_map = Egypt

| pushpin_label = Ismailia Air Base

| pushpin_map_caption = Shown within Egypt

| built = {{Start date|1915}}

| used = 1915 - present

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| ownership = Ministry of Defense (Egypt)

| operator = Royal Air Force
United States Army Air Forces
Egyptian Air Force

| controlledby = Royal Air Force (1935-1956)
Ninth Air Force (1942)
Egyptian Air Force (1956 – present)

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| battles = World War II

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| elevation = {{Convert|11|m|0}}

| r1-number = 13/31

| r1-length = {{Convert|980|m|0}}

| r1-surface = Asphalt

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Ismailia Air Base {{Transliteration|ar|DIN|El Qūwāt El Gawīyä El Maṣrīyä}} is an air base of the Egyptian Air Force located approximately {{Convert|4|km}} west-northwest of the city of Ismailia; {{Convert|116|km}} northeast of Cairo, Egypt.

History

Ismailia was a pre-World War II station, originally opened by the British about 1915 as Moascar.

On 5–7 November 1938, RAF Vickers Wellesley aircraft set a non-stop distance record by flying from Ismailia to Darwin, Australia, a distance of 7,162 miles (11520.4 km).

During World War II, the airfield, then known as RAF Ismailia, continued to be used as a military airfield by the British Royal Air Force and also the United States Army Air Forces during the North African campaign against Axis forces.

History

; Royal Air Force

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; United States Army Air Forces (Ninth Air Force)

{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}

  • Maurer, Maurer. Air Force Combat Units of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History, 1983. {{ISBN|0-89201-092-4}}.
  • {{cite book|editor=Maurer, Maurer|title=Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II|orig-year=1969|url= http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161220180455/http://media.defense.gov/2010/Dec/02/2001329899/-1/-1/0/AFD-101202-002.pdf |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 December 2016 |edition= reprint|year=1982|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-405-12194-6|oclc=72556|lccn=70605402}}

Current use

The base houses an Mil Mi-17 unit and further this baseis being used for other military movements.{{cite web|url=https://scramble.nl/planning/orbats/egypt/egypt-air-force#HE10124|title=Egypt - Air Force - Al Ismailiyah|publisher=Scramble.nl|access-date=27 November 2024}}

See also

References

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  • {{cite book |last1=Jefford |first1=C. G. |title= RAF Squadrons. A comprehensive record of the movement and equipment of all RAF squadrons and their antecedents since 1912 |year=1988 |publisher= Airlife Publishing |location= Shrewsbury, UK |isbn= 1-85310-053-6 }}