Kibrit Air Base قاعدة كبريت الجوية RAF Kabrit | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||||||
Owner | Egyptian Air Force | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Closed | ||||||||||||||
Location | Kabrit, Egypt | ||||||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 1,560 ft / 475 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 30°14′45″N 032°29′24″E / 30.24583°N 32.49000°E | ||||||||||||||
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Kibrit Air Base (formerly Kabrit Air Base[1]) is an operational Egyptian Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية المصرية, al-Qūwāt al-Gawwīyah al-Miṣrīyah) helicopter base located in Egypt, approximately 20 miles north of Suez and 125 km east of Cairo. An SA-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 a pilot station for Suez canal navigation on the same location.