Ismailia Air Base RAF Ismailia RAF Moascar | |
Ensign: | Flag of Egypt.svg |
Ensign Size: | 70px |
Native Name: | ar|قاعدة الاسماعيلية الجوية |
Location: | Ismailia, Ismailia Governorate |
Country: | Egypt |
Type: | Air Base |
Pushpin Map: | Egypt |
Pushpin Label: | Ismailia Air Base |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Egypt |
Used: | 1915 - present |
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) |
Battles: | World War II |
Elevation: | 11m (36feet) |
R1-Number: | 13/31 |
R1-Length: | 980m (3,220feet) |
R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Ismailia Air Base is a Air base of the Egyptian Air Force located approximately west-northwest of the city of Ismailia; northeast of Cairo, Egypt.
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.
The base houses an Mil Mi-17 unit and further this baseis being used for other military movements.[2]