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Almaza Air Force Base Airport

مطار ألماظة
RAF Avro York MW173, the personal aircraft of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park, AOC Air Command South East Asia, at Almaza in 1946. In the background are Tiger Moths of the Egyptian airline Misr Airwork.
  • IATA: none
  • ICAO: HEAZ
Summary
Airport typeCivil/Military
OperatorEgyptian Air Force
LocationCairo, Egypt
Opened1910
Elevation AMSL300 ft / 91 m
Coordinates30°05′40″N 031°21′35″E / 30.09444°N 31.35972°E / 30.09444; 31.35972
Map
Almaza Air Force Base Airport is located in Egypt
Almaza Air Force Base Airport
Almaza Air Force Base Airport
Almaza in Egypt
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 3,917 1,194 Asphalt[1]
18/36 6,726 2,050 Asphalt[1]

Almaza Air Force Base Airport is a regional airport in north-eastern Cairo, the capital of Egypt. It was established as a civilian aerodrome, but was partly taken over by the British military, designated RAF Heliopolis and later RAF Almaza. Today it is a military aerodrome of the Egyptian Air Force as well as regional civil airport.

  1. ^ a b "Pilot information for Almaza Air Force Base". OurAirports. 2016. Retrieved 3 September 2016.

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