Kibrit Air Base قاعدة كبريت الجوية RAF Kabrit
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Summary
Airport type	Military
Owner	Egyptian Air Force
Operator	Closed
Location	Kabrit, Egypt
Elevation AMSL	1,560 ft / 475 m
Coordinates	30°14′45″N032°29′24″E / 30.24583°N 32.49000°E /30.24583; 32.49000
Map
Location of Kibrit Air Base
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 14R/32L 2,684 8,805 Asphalt 14L/32R 2,684 8,805 Asphalt

Kibrit Air Base (formerly Kabrit Air Base^[1]) is an operationalEgyptian Air Force (Arabic:القوات الجوية المصرية,al-Qūwāt al-Gawwīyah al-Miṣrīyah) helicopter base located inEgypt, approximately 20 miles north ofSuez and 125 km east ofCairo. AnSA-342 Gazelle unit is based here. The name of the station came from a nearby village, and in Egyptian means "sulphur".Kabrit now is the name of apilot station for Suez canal navigation on the same location.

DuringWorld War II the facility was known asRoyal Air Force Station Kabrit, (Landing Ground 213) and was a majorRoyal Air Force facility which was used during theWestern Desert campaign. In 1941, it was where theSpecial Air Service (SAS) was formed. Beginning in 1943,United States Army Air ForcesNinth Air Force units arrived to supplement the RAF against the Germans in the Western Desert. After the war, Kabrit remained a RAF station, hosting transport squadrons, five circa 1946. This continued until the breakdown in relations between the British and Egyptian governments in 1956, when the decision was taken to pull out British forces from theSuez Canal Zone.

The airfield was taken over by the Egyptian Air Force and renamed "Kibrit", becoming one of its main airfields. During the1956 Suez Crisis, it was an airfield for 20 Squadron EAF, equipped with twelve Soviet-builtMikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 aircraft. During the1967 Arab-Israeli War, the station was attacked by theIsraeli Air Force, and many of its Soviet-builtMiG-17 aircraft were destroyed on the ramp by the IAF'sDassault Mystère IVs. In the1973 Yom Kippur War with Israel, the airfield was captured by Israeli ground forces that crossed theSuez Canal along with Kasfreet and Shalufa Airfields, however it was not used by the Israeli Air Force.

Kibrit remains an Egyptian Air Force base. Currently, the airfield houses an SA-342 Gazelle unit. Its main runways are having their asphalt removed, but the hangars are still being used for housing the helicopters.

• List of former Royal Air Force stations
• List of North African airfields during World War II

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• Royal Air Force Airfield Creation for the Western Desert Campaign

• Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Egypt
• World War II airfields in Egypt

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