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RAF Castel Benito (later RAF Idris) was a Royal Air Force station near Tripoli in Libya between 1943 and 1966. ==History== The airfield was first used by the Regia Aeronautica (Italian Air Force), and it was where the first units of Italian parachutists trained and were formed shortly before the Second World War. The first Italian Military Parachute School was located at Castel Benito. The first troops trained were two Libyan battalions, the Libyan Parachute Battalion and the 1st National Libyan Parachute Battalion, of the Royal Colonial Corps. In 1938 the Italian Libya governor Italo Balbo enlarged the military airfield and created an international airport for civilians, served by Ala Littoria: the Tripoli-Castel Benito Airport. After it was captured by the British, the airfield was renamed RAF Station Castel Benito and was used by a number of operational squadrons involved in the desert war, sometimes for only a few days or weeks at a time. In 1951, the station was renamed Tripoli Idris Airport.〔See the international aviation safety database (here )〕 The name was chosen to honour the Libyan King Idris at the request of the Libyan government. The station was used as a staging post for flights to and from the United Kingdom to the Middle East and Far East. It was also used in the 1950s as a base for aircraft using the Libyan desert bombing ranges (Tahuna) for practice. The station was closed in the late 1960s when the Libya became a republic. Following the withdrawal of the RAF from Libya, the airfield became Tripoli Idris Airport. It is now known as Tripoli International Airport. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RAF Castel Benito」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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