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Gamal Abdel Nasser Airbase

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heavy bomber that crashed-landed deep in the Libyan desert during WWII in 1943, was brought to the air base by a local Libyan team led by Dr. Fadel Ali Mohammed (tasked with recovering the plane wreck) for storage and safekeeping. The remnants of the aircraft still remain there.
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airfield. A number of the former Italian buildings were seen remaining in 2003, during a courtesy visit by former RAF personnel, at which time no military aircraft were evident.
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to London on 7 February 1952. In 1994, the remaining wreckage of
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Royal Air Force Station El Adem was the fuel stop for the
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No 53 Repair and Salvage Unit (26 Dec 1941 – Feb 1942);
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The airbase is named after the Egyptian revolutionary
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The airfield was largely reconstructed in 1942 by the
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Al Adm

IATA
ICAO
al-ʿAdam
Butnan District
Libya
AMSL
Coordinates
31°51′41.00″N 023°54′24.4″E / 31.8613889°N 23.906778°E / 31.8613889; 23.906778
Gamal Abdel Nasser Airbase is located in Libya
Runways
Direction
Arabic
romanized
Libyan Air Force
Arabic
romanized
Berber
Tobruk
Arabic
romanized
al Adm
World War II
Italian Air Force
BOAC
Queen Elizabeth II
Entebbe
Lady Be Good
B-24 Liberator

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