• Source: Structure of the Egyptian Air Force

The structure of the Egyptian Air Force, sourced from scramble.nl, is described below.
By June 1940 at the beginning of the Western Desert Campaign, the Royal Egyptian Air Force comprised:

1 Squadron (Egypt) with Westland Lysander Mk. II
2 Squadron (Egypt) with Gloster Gladiator Mk. II
3 Squadron (Egypt) and 4 Squadron (Egypt) with Avro 626s and Avro 674s respectively
5 Squadron (Egypt) with Gloster Gladiator Mk. II




Air Bases


Source:

Abu Suweir Air Base 30°34′22″N 032°05′47″E
El Mansoura Air Base 30°58′03″N 031°26′03″E
Borg al Arab Air Base 31°11′02″N 029°56′50″E
Aswan Air Base 23°57′54″N 032°49′24″E
Az Zagazig (Abu Hammad) Air Base 30°35′39″N 031°39′58″E
Beni Sueif Air Base 29°12′43″N 031°00′57″E
Bilbeis Air Base 30°23′42″N 031°36′05″E
Birma/Tanta Air Base 30°50′13″N 030°56′11″E
Almaza Air Base 30°05′33″N 031°21′35″E
Cairo/Intl Air Base 30°07′19″N 031°24′20″E
Cairo-West Air Base 30°06′59″N 030°54′56″E
El Minya Air Base 28°05′56″N 030°43′44″E
Fayid Air Base 30°20′04″N 032°15′50″E
Gebel El Basur Air Base 30°32′24″N 030°33′38″E
Hurghada Air Base 27°11′03″N 033°47′54″E
Inshas Air Base 30°19′57″N 031°26′51″E
Gianaclis New Air Base 30°49′18″N 030°11′35″E
Kom Awshim Air Base 29°33′15″N 030°53′42″E
Mersa Matruh Air Base 31°19′28″N 027°13′20″E
Wadi El Gandali (Khatamia) Air Base 30°03′01″N 031°50′22″E




Order of battle


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Silver Stars Aerobatic Team



Silver Stars is the Egyptian Air Force aerobatic display team flying 10 K-8E Karakorum jet trainer aircraft painted in white, red and black colors. All planes are equipped with red, white and black smoke generators. During the shows, the Silver Stars performs eight different formations along with several single aircraft passes. Aircraft #6325 (Star 1) carries the name "Sharaf" after the team leader. Another team's planes also carried the pilots names painted at the K-8 nose. All pilots are flying instructors at the Egyptian Air force Academy based in Belbeis Airport.
The Egyptian Air Force demonstration team "The Silver Stars" was formed in mid 1974 to participate in the "October War" anniversary. Pilots of the team were flying instructors at the Air force College and flew four L-29 planes painted in dark green and brown and yellow – standard color scheme. In 1984, the Silver Stars aerobatic team switched to six Alpha Jet training airplanes. In the following year, team's planes became nine.
In 2003, the team made the switch to the K-8E Karakorum trainer and from 2005 was led by Group Captain Mostafa Fathi.
Since 2010, the team is now flying ten aircraft – nine plus one solo.




References

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