Many years ago when in SOAF we used to land there in Skyvans/Defenders for various reasons. There used to be an old airship mooring mast on the NE side (R101??) and to the N. were the remains of some old buildings which definitely had military origins. One of our engineers and team excavated an old radial engine (Bristol??) which I believe is now in the military museum at Bait al Falaj. If you are interested I can have a dig through logbooks/photo albums to see if I have anything else.