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RAF Khormaksar
Aden, Aden Protectorate in Yemen
Motto: Into the Remote Places
RAF Khormaksar is located in Yemen
RAF Khormaksar
RAF Khormaksar
Shown within Yemen
Coordinates12°49′46″N 045°01′45″E / 12.82944°N 45.02917°E / 12.82944; 45.02917
TypeRoyal Air Force station
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence
OperatorRoyal Air Force
Controlled byBritish Forces Aden
Site history
Built1917 (1917)
In use1917 – 29 November 1967 (1967)
Battles/warsAden Emergency
Airfield information
IdentifiersIATA: ADE, ICAO: OYAA
Elevation1 metre (3 ft 3 in) AMSL
Runways
Direction Length and surface
08/26  Asphalt

Royal Air Force Khormaksar or more simply RAF Khormaksar is a former Royal Air Force station in Aden, Yemen. Its motto was "Into the Remote Places".[1] During the 1960s, it was the base for nine squadrons and became the RAF's busiest-ever station as well as the biggest staging post for the RAF between the United Kingdom and Singapore.[citation needed]

It later became Aden International Airport.

  1. ^ Pine, L.G. (1983). A dictionary of mottoes (1 ed.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 115. ISBN 0-7100-9339-X.

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