Embaba Airport was a pilot training airport in the

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suburb of

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that was closed in 2002, because of safety concerns due to buildings encroaching on airport property. For a number of years, the airport was home to Egyptian Gliding Institute. A

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project was approved, and construction began in 2009. The airport is now gone, with the theme park and apartment blocks replacing it.

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