In 1934 the British government provided 10 Avro 626 aircraft, which were the first real Egyptian military planes.

Some of these flights were conducted alongside Egyptian planes.

In the aerial combat that ensued, the Phantom pair managed to down 7 to 8 Egyptian planes and driving off the rest.

T.W.A. 800 blew up in midair, while there is as yet no evidence of any explosion aboard the Egyptian plane.

The Israelis did it back in oh, early seventies, I believe; Egyptian plane, over Sinai.

Two days after the declaration of the state, on May 16, 1948 Egyptian planes attacked Tel Aviv.

An Egyptian plane sent to Algeria to "rescue" citizens was refused permission to land.

A few days earlier, the Israelis had shot down an Egyptian plane.

One Egyptian plane was shot down, but the corvette escaped.

A few feet from the pavilion, a stone monument memorializes the victims of a bombing by Egyptian planes during the 1948 war.