Taba airfield, Sinai, Egypt
I've just got back from holiday, flying to/from Taba International Airport in Egypt. Although this airport has very limited facilities and traffic, it does have 2 x 13,200ft parallel runways! (albeit one is currently out of use)
I'm guessing that it was previously a military airfield but I can't find out anything on the internet about it's history. Was it a British 2WW airfield, or perhaps a more recent development in connection with the Egypt/Israel wars in the seventies?
Any information on this airfield would be of interest if anyone could help out. A map or plan would also be great to work out how the airfield is being used now. It looks like the old 04R/22L runway is being used as an access road, but maybe it was just an old taxi way that we were driving on to get to the terminal building.
Many thanks
airsmiles