• Cairo West AB (IATA: CWE, ICAO: HECW) is a military airport on the western side of Cairo, Egypt. The air base shares some infrastructure with the adjacent...
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    Air Cairo is a hybrid airline based in Cairo, Egypt. The airline is part owned by Egyptair. Air Cairo operates scheduled flights to the Middle East and...
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    event of war. These deployments are usually centered at the large Cairo West Air Base. Since the Gulf War, the end of NATO's Cold War-era Reforger exercises...
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    30.09250; 31.35972 Cairo/Intl Air Base 30°07′19″N 031°24′20″E / 30.12194°N 31.40556°E / 30.12194; 31.40556 Cairo West Air Base 30°06′59″N 030°54′56″E...
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  • the Cairo West Air Base. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road. The main runway (16R/34L) is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the Cairo West runway...
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    international airport of Cairo and the largest and busiest airport in Egypt. It serves as the primary hub for Egyptair and Nile Air as well as several other...
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  • International Airport Military airports       Cairo HECW CWE Cairo West Air Base Cairo HEAZ   Almaza Air Force Base Cairo HE13 Wadi El Gandali Airport Helwan HE15...
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  • Birma/Tanta Cairo/Almaza Cairo/Intl Cairo/West Minya Fayid Gabal El Basur Hurghada Inshas Gianaclis Kom Awshim Mersa Matruh Jandali Abu Suweir Air Base 30°34′22″N...
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    retired in 2000. By 1966, Air Group 65, with its primary base at Cairo West Air Base, was operating three squadrons of Tu-16s: No. 34 and 36 Squadrons...
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    Ismailia Air Base is an Egyptian Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية المصرية, El Qūwāt El Gawīyä El Maṣrīyä) helicopter base, located approximately 4 km west-northwest...
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    inactivated at any time. The unit's last known assignment was in 2003 at Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. The first predecessor of...
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  • Cairo International Airport – Cairo HECP (CCE) – Capital International Airport – Proposed new capital of Egypt HECW (CWE) – Cairo West Air Base – Cairo...
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    Cairo (/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KY-roh; Arabic: القاهرة, romanized: al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the city-state Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest...
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    Nile Air (Arabic: النيل للطيران) is an Egyptian airline based at Cairo International Airport that operates scheduled services to destinations in Egypt...
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    in the Cairo area, including Cairo West Air Base. At the last minute, it was discovered that fifteen US transport aircraft were at Cairo West evacuating...
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    Hosni Mubarak (category Egyptian Air Force air marshals)
    commander, then as a base commander; he commanded the Cairo West Air Base in October 1966 then briefly commanded the Beni Suef Air Base. In November 1967...
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  • HECW may refer to: HECW, the ICAO code for Cairo West Air Base in Cairo, Egypt HECW1, a human gene HECW2, a human gene This disambiguation page lists articles...
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    in storage/reserve. Egyptian Air Force 222nd TFB (Wing) (Cairo West Air Base) 76th Squadron 78th Squadron The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) operated a...
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    bomb Cairo West Air Base (which was aborted in flight due to potential risk to US personnel in the vicinity) while six more attacked Almaza Air Base and...
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    McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II (category Carrier-based aircraft)
    with their former base at Cairo West Air Base being reconfigured for the operation of F-16C/D Fighting Falcons. The West German air force (Luftwaffe)...
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    the Wayback Machine Cairo West Air Base, GlobalSecurity.org 320th Air Expeditionary Group [320th AEG], GlobalSecurity.org 407th Air Expeditionary Group...
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    Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base (German: "Fliegerhorst Fürstenfeldbruck" or "Flugplatz Fürstenfeldbruck") is a former German Air Force airfield near the town...
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  • commercial bank in Uganda Cairo Aviation, a charter airline based in Cairo, Egypt Air Cairo, a low fare airline based in Cairo, Egypt Cairo (dingbat font), a...
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  • Wheelus Air Base was a United States Air Force base located in British-occupied Libya and the Kingdom of Libya from 1943 to 1970. At one time it was the...
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  • least 400 personnel were dispatched to Cairo West Air Base, Egypt, during FY 80. Proven Force – northern air campaign from Turkey over Iraq in 1991....
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    Islamic Cairo (Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية...
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  • Wadi Seidna Air Base (ICAO: HSWS) (Arabic: قاعدة وادي سيّدنا, romanized: wadi sayyidna) is a military airport 22 kilometres (14 mi) north of Khartoum in...
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    while it was on loan to New Zealand post-war The planned attack on Cairo West Air Base airport had been cancelled as too close to the civilian airport:...
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    Citadel of Cairo or Citadel of Saladin (Arabic: قلعة صلاح الدين, romanized: Qalaʿat Salāḥ ad-Dīn) is a medieval Islamic-era fortification in Cairo, Egypt...
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  • Abu Suweir Air Base is an Egyptian Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية المصرية, El Qūwāt El Gawwīyä El Maṣrīyä) base, located approximately 17.1 kilometres...
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