Almaza Airport

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Almaza Airport is a historic airfield in Cairo that served as the city's main airport before the opening of Cairo International Airport.

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Label Occurrences
Almaza Air Base 1
Almaza Airport canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf airfield
airport
cityServed Cairo
continent Africa
country Egypt
hasAlternativeName Almaza Airport
surface form: Almaza Air Base

Cairo Almaza Air Base
hasApproximateOpeningPeriod early 20th century
hasElevation ~116 meters
hasFunction VIP transport base
air force base
training base
hasHistoricalUse Cairo West Air Base
surface form: Royal Egyptian Air Force base

civilian airport
hasIATACode none
hasICAOCode HEAZ
hasPrimaryUse military air operations
hasRunway asphalt runway 05/23
asphalt runway 18/36
hasRunwaySurface asphalt
hasSecondaryUse VIP flights
government flights
is historic airfield in Cairo
locatedIn Cairo
Cairo Governorate
Heliopolis
locatedNear Cairo International Airport
Cairo city center
namedAfter Almaza district
operatedBy Egyptian Air Force
partOf Egyptian military airbase network
replacedBy Cairo International Airport
servedAs main airport of Cairo
usedBy Egyptian Air Force
Royal Air Force
Egyptian Air Force
surface form: Royal Egyptian Air Force
usedDuring World War II
usedFor civil aviation
military aviation

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Cairo International Airport replaced Almaza Airport
Almaza Airport hasAlternativeName Almaza Airport
this entity surface form: Almaza Air Base