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Birma Air Base

Tanta, Egypt

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HE16

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Tanta · GH · Egypt

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30.837°, 30.936°

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Egyptian Air Force installation near the Nile Delta city of Tanta.

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Tanta, Egypt

Birma Air Base is a military airfield operated by the Egyptian Air Force, located near the city of Tanta in the Gharbia Governorate of Egypt. It carries the ICAO designator HE16 and has no assigned IATA code, reflecting its exclusively military function with no scheduled commercial passenger services. The base is situated in the fertile Nile Delta region, an area of strategic importance for Egyptian air defense. Like many Egyptian military air installations, detailed operational information about Birma Air Base is not publicly available.

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›Operated by the Egyptian Air Force with no commercial passenger services.
›ICAO code is HE16; no IATA code is assigned.
›Located near Tanta, the capital of Gharbia Governorate in the Nile Delta.
›Detailed operational and infrastructure information is not publicly disclosed.
›Part of Egypt's network of military air installations in the Nile Delta region.

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