| Fayid Air Base | |
| Ensign: | Flag of Egypt.svg |
| Ensign Size: | 70px |
| Native Name: | ar|قاعدة فايد الجوية |
| Location: | Fayed, Ismailia Governorate |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Type: | Air Base |
| Pushpin Map: | Egypt#Africa |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Shown within Egypt |
| Pushpin Label: | Fayid Air Base |
| Ownership: | Ministry of Defense (Egypt) |
| Operator: | Egyptian Air Force |
| Built: | & 1980 |
| Used: | 1942 - present |
| Elevation: | 21m (69feet) |
| R1-Number: | 09/27 |
| R1-Length: | 3000m (10,000feet) |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
Fayid Air Base is a Air base of the Egyptian Air Force located west of Fayed, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt and 23km (14miles) south of Ismailia (Al Isma`iliyah) and 116km (72miles) northeast of Cairo.[1] It was formerly RAF Fayid, a Royal Air Force station operational from 1942.
The base is home to both 86 and 88 Squadrons of 282 Tactical Fighter Wing of 149 Air Division, both squadrons fly the General Dynamics F-16C/D-40 Fighting Falcon.[2]
During the Second World War, it was used as a military airfield by the Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces during the North African campaign against Axis forces.
Fayid was also the site of Camp Fayed, a significant internment camp of Italian Egyptians managed by the British authorities.[3]
USAAF Ninth Air Force units which used the airfield were:
After the immediate postwar rundown of RAF units in the Mediterranean, RAF Fayid became the home of No. 13 Squadron RAF flying de Havilland Mosquitoes. Later it was joined by No. 39 Squadron RAF, with night fighter Mosquitos, and No. 208 Squadron RAF with fighter-reconnaissance Supermarine Spitfire XVIIIs.[4] By 1952 it was the main transport staging post in the Canal Zone and also had five Vickers Valetta (MRT) Squadrons inc. 70, 78, 114 and 216. Along with the other RAF stations in Egypt, it was evacuated by April 1956.
The following squadrons were here at some point:
Fayid was then used by the Egyptian Air Force until the 1980s when the airfield was upgraded (with support from the USAF) to accommodate the most recent sale of F-16 aircraft to Egypt by the U.S. Transatlantic Programs Center (TAC). The new Fayid Air Base now accommodates the 86th and 88th Tactical Fighter Squadrons of the 282nd Tactical Fighter Wing, flying F-16C/D Block 40s.[5]