El Gora Airport
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| Serves | El Gorah, Egypt | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 324 ft / 99 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 31°04′30″N 34°08′10″E / 31.07500°N 34.13611°E | ||||||||||||||
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El Gora Airport (ICAO: HEGR) is an airport serving the town of El Gorah, in the North Sinai Governorate of Egypt, 10 miles (16 km) from the border with Israel, and 13 miles (21 km) from the southern tip of the Gaza Strip.
The airport was originally built by Israel as the Eitam Air Force Base (25th Wing). The airbase was the last airbase established in the Sinai Peninsula by the Israeli Air Force. The base was inaugurated in December 1976. Next to the base there were permanent buildings for the soldiers and commanders of the base, where they lived with their families, buildings that received the name "Camp Nurit" which was part of a naval base. At the same time, the Israeli Air Force operated three more major bases in Sinai: Ofir, Etzion and Rafidim, which gave the IDF spatial protection over the entire area of the Sinai Peninsula.