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    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...
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    Khatatbah Air Base Al Mansurah Air Base Almaza Air Base Aswan International Airport (Aswan Air Base) Az Zaqaziq Air Base Beni Suef Air Base Bilbays Air Base Bir...
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  • Birma/Tanta Cairo/Almaza Cairo/Intl Cairo/West Minya Fayid Gabal El Basur Hurghada Inshas Gianaclis Kom Awshim Mersa Matruh Jandali Abu Suweir Air Base 30°34′22″N...
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  • Egyptair (redirect from Egypt Air)
    wheels-up landing at Almaza Air Base, Cairo. The aircraft was operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Almaza to Khartoum Airport, Sudan;...
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    Operation Focus (category Attacks on air bases)
    Field Marshal Amer and Lt-Gen. Sedky Mahmoud, who were en route from Almaza Air Base to Bir Tamada in the Sinai to meet the commanders of the troops stationed...
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     Ethiopia Ethiopian Air Force  Indonesia Indonesian Air Force  Iraq Iraqi Air Force  Kazakhstan Kazakh Air Force  Laos Laotian Air Force  Pakistan Pakistan...
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  • Alexandria HEAX Borg El Arab Airport HBE Alexandria / Borg El Arab HEBA Almaza Air Base   Almaza HEAZ Assiut Airport ATZ Assiut HEAT Aswan International Airport...
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    accommodation for Almásy). It is often said (mainly in Hungary) that the Almaza Air Base was named after him, but this has absolutely no foundation; the first...
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    CCCP-86670 to the Monino outdoor Air Force Museum. A derelict Il-62 without any paint or markings is on display near Vasylkiv Air Base in Ukraine. Data from Jane's...
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    Cairo West Air Base (which was aborted in flight due to potential risk to US personnel in the vicinity) while six more attacked Almaza Air Base and a further...
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  • Mohamed Sedky Mahmoud (category Egyptian Air Force air marshals)
    head of the Dekhila Air Base in August 1949, and then Almaza Air Base in August 1951. He was promoted as the 1st Lt. Gen. in 1952. Air Marshal M Sedky Mahmoud...
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    hijacking.) He relayed to North that the four hijackers were at the Almaza Air Base near Cairo. Later that morning American sources confirmed the information...
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    entertain troops. On 7 July 1965, a Soviet Air Force An-12 crashed shortly after takeoff from Almaza Air Base, Egypt, killing 30 of 31 on board. After takeoff...
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  • during a flight from Almaza Air Base outside Cairo, Egypt, to Khartoum in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The aircraft returns to Almaza and makes a belly landing...
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  • Navy Vought F4U-7 Corsair was hit by Egyptian anti-aircraft fire at Almaza Air Base and crash landed. 3 November 1956 – A Royal Navy Westland Wyvern was...
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    Zakaria Mohieddin and Yuri Gagarin - the first Human in Space, Cairo Almaza Air Base, February 2, 1962...
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    10 Squadron dropped the first RAF bombs on Egypt during a raid on Almaza Air Base on 31 October 1956. The squadron disbanded on 15 January 1957. No....
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    wheels-up landing at Almaza Air Base, Cairo, Egypt. The aircraft was operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Almaza to Khartoum Airport...
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    airfields and administrative headquarters previously used by the Royal Air Force. They are listed under any former county or country name which was...
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  • International. 28 April 1938. p. 416 (Archive). "MISR AIRWORK, S.A.E., Almaza Aerodrome, Heliopolis." "World airline survey—United Arab Airlines – UAA"...
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    flight flew over the Egyptian air base at Almaza twice, 10 minutes apart; in between the British and French attacked the base, and the visible results of...
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    Cairo International Airport (category Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces Air Transport Command in North Africa)
    States Army Air Forces (USAAF) built John Payne Field Air Force Base to serve the Allied Forces, rather than take over the existing Almaza Airport located...
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    Matruh, wfu) → AW149 546 Air Wing: 12 Squadron (Almaza) Egyptian Air Force India Indian Naval Air Arm Pakistan Pakistan Naval Air Arm Ukraine Ukrainian Naval...
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  • ordered to hit Almaza airbase outside of Cairo. British night bombing proved ineffective. Starting on the morning of 1 November, carrier-based de Havilland...
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  • Egypt Aviation Academy (category Educational organisations based in Egypt)
    Egypt Air aircraft and was based at Almaza airport (HEAZ). The high demand for this school encouraged Egypt Air to open a new school in Alexandria in...
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  • September 1954: SU-AFO of Misrair crashed at Almaza Airport, Cairo, Egypt. 28 June 1956: T-5 of the Argentine Air Force crashed at Resistencia, Argentina....
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    Royal Air Force aircraft squadrons List of RAF Regiment units List of Fleet Air Arm aircraft squadrons List of Army Air Corps aircraft units List of Air Training...
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  • Electra G-AFCS Lea crashed at Almaza Airport, Egypt; no casualties. On 14 April 1944, Lockheed 10A Electra G-AEPR crashed at Almaza Airport. On 21 April 1944...
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    1922 and 1925 he served as a Flight Commander in No. 45 Squadron, based at Almaza, Cairo. Flying the Vickers Vernon transport aircraft. He flew as co-pilot...
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    ground. The women of the party then beat the ears and tossed them into the air until they were thoroughly winnowed, when the wheat was eaten without further...
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