Air Force

Between 1952 and 1967
Until August 1953 30 Vampire Mark-5 planes joined the Air Force. In1954 the Egyptian Air Force started a new era in arranging its rows to shoulder the responsibility of defending the Suez Canal after the British Air Force left its bases and the air force became as follows:- 49 Vampire - 16 Metior - 3 Lancaster -3 Halyfaky - 40 Shipping planes - Some training planes. In 1955 the first Eastern weapon deal was made and through that Egypt got the following:- 86 Mig -15 - 39 Elioshin - 28 - 20 Elioshin -14 - 35 Yak-11 In the same year, the first Egyptian training plane was produced in the Egyptian factories and it was called Gomhoreya. In 1956 the Air Force got the following :- 12 Elioshin 28 - 100 Mig 17 - 40 Yak training planes - 18 Me -1 and Me - 4.
The year 1958 represented an important leap in Egyptian Airforce history , when the Russian Jet planes joined the service and these planes were :- Mig-19 - Mig-21 - TU-16 Bombers - Antinof-12 transport planes. In the year 1964 Egypt got the Me-6 Helicopters which were considered the biggest then. In 1965 Egypt received the advanced training plane L-29 jet. In the beginning of the year 1967 Egypt received the Sokhoy-7 Fighter. In the early 60's the first Egyptian jet plane was built in cooperation with Spanish expertise and it was named Helwan-200 , and also the first jet fighter Cairo-300 was built in cooperation with Chinese expertise	A LINE OF RUSSIAN BUILT MIG FIGHTERS AT ALMAZAH OUTSIDE CAIRO IN MARCH 1957