Kibrit Air Base
During World War II the facility was known as Royal Air Force Station Kabrit, (Landing Ground 213) and was a major Royal Air Force facility which was used during the Western Desert campaign.After the war, Kabrit remained a RAF station, hosting transport squadrons, five circa 1946.During the 1956 Suez Crisis, it was an airfield for 20 Squadron EAF, equipped with twelve Soviet-built Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 aircraft.During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the station was attacked by the Israeli Air Force, and many of its Soviet-built MiG-17 aircraft were destroyed on the ramp by the IAF's Dassault Mystère IVs.This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency