Al Ismailiyah Air Base

Al Ismailiyah Air Base
IATA: none – ICAO: none
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Government
Location		Egypt
Elevation AMSL		39 ft / 12 m
Coordinates		30°35′53.75″N 032°14′12.86″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
13/31	10,555	3,217	Asphalt

Al Ismailiyah Air Base

Location of Al Ismailiyah Air Base, Egypt

Al Ismailiyah Air Base is an Egyptian Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية المصرية‎, Al-Qūwāt al-Gawwīyä al-Miṣrīyä) base, located approximately 4 km west-northwest of Ismailia; (Al Isma`iliyah); 116 km northeast of Cairo.

World War II

• Media related to RAF Ismailia at Wikimedia Commons

During World War II the airfield, then known as RAF Ismailia or Ismailia Airfield was used as a military airfield by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force during the North African Campaign against Axis forces. Ismailia was a pre-World War II station, originally opened about 1916.

USAAF Ninth Air Force units which used the airfield were:

• 436th Troop Carrier Group, 13 August-18 October 1942. C-47 Skytrain
• 434th Bombardment Group, 14 August-29 September 1942, B-25 Mitchell

Today, the airfield is an active Egyptian Air Force Base. It's World War II configuration is still evident in aerial photography.

See also

• List of World War II North Africa Airfields

References

• Royal Air Force Airfield Creation for the Western Desert Campaign