Category:Heliopolis Airport (Almasay Airport)

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English: The Heliopolis Airport (Almasay Airport) was established in Heliopolis as Heliopolis Airport during Heliopolis race (1910).

Then it was named RAF Heliopolis in circa 1914 and used by RAF, Misr Airwork and the Egyptian Government.
In the 1920s it was named by the Egyptian government Almasay Airport after László Almásy a former pilot in the Austerian-Hungery Empire.
It was the first base of the Royal Egyptian Air Force (REAF). On 2 June 1932 it has witnessed the start of the Royal Egyptian Air Force (REAF) by arrival of the first 5 moths aircraft from Hatfield airfield north of London flown by Abdel-Minuim Miquati, Ahmed Abdel-Raziq, Fuad Abdel-Hamid and 2 other British pilots. The Pilots were greeted by the Egyptian king and a large crowd of excited Egyptians.
During World war II it was named RAF Almaza.
After circa 1947 it became EAF Almaza until now.

العربية: مطار ألماظة

Almaza Air Base

military airfield/former airport (Egypt)

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Instance of

air base

Location

Cairo Governorate, Egypt

Operator

Egyptian Air Force

Inception

1910

Elevation above sea level

91 m

ICAO airport code

HEAZ

Map

30° 05′ 30.12″ N, 31° 21′ 36″ E

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Subcategories

This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.

A

Almaza Airport‎ (6 F)
Almaza Airport hangars‎ (3 F)

E

EAF Almaza‎ (3 C, 1 F)

H

Heliopolis race (1910)‎ (10 F)

M

Misr Airwork‎ (3 C, 2 F)

R

RAF Heliopolis‎ (1 C, 2 F)

Y

Yasser Arafat's Cairo Funeral‎ (23 F)

Media in category "Heliopolis Airport (Almasay Airport)"

The following 15 files are in this category, out of 15 total.

1954 - Haj Amin Al Husseini and Sayf El Islam Abdallah-Almaza Airport-Cairo.jpg 347 × 430; 114 KB
Air views of Palestine. Flight from Gaza to Cairo via Ismalieh. Heliopolis. A general view showing the aerodrome of the Imperial Airways, Ltd. LOC matpc.15903.jpg 4,448 × 3,243; 2.43 MB
Almaza display Sep 1956.jpg 660 × 331; 43 KB
Almásy László és Zichy Nándor első felfedező útja repülőn - 1931. augusztus 21, Mátyásföld, Budapest (1).tif 3,981 × 5,637; 49.23 MB
Graff Zeppelin in Almaza.jpg 401 × 273; 42 KB
JB-011-Héliopolis-fev1910-DD-3.jpg 2,094 × 3,147; 2.45 MB
MiG-17F of the 1st Sqn scrambling in full afterburner from Almaza.jpg 588 × 361; 27 KB
Nasser & Quwatli in Almaza airport February 1958.jpg 820 × 626; 137 KB
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. CM634.jpg 800 × 546; 81 KB
Yuri Gagarin and Zakaria Mohieddin 05-02-1962 Cairo Almaza Air Base 002.jpg 8,221 × 5,842; 5.08 MB
Yuri Gagarin and Zakaria Mohieddin 05-02-1962 Cairo Almaza Air Base 003.png 1,963 × 1,285; 7.08 MB
Yuri Gagarin and Zakaria Mohieddin 05-02-1962 Cairo Almaza Air Base Egypt.jpg 4,373 × 3,175; 5.94 MB
Yuri Gagarin and Zakaria Mohieddin 05-02-1962 Cairo Almaza Air Base.jpg 2,824 × 3,615; 4.67 MB
Yuri Gagarin in Egypt 1962 airport.jpg 7,561 × 5,276; 2.07 MB
טיול מארץ ישראל למצרים בארגון הסתדרות צעירות עבריות שדה התעופה בהליופו btm1967.jpeg 643 × 453; 122 KB

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