Kibrit Air Base
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) 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.