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	'''RAF Mauripur''' was a [[Royal Air Force]] station in [[British India]] 4 miles north west of the centre of [[Karachi]]. It is now known as [[Masroor Airbase]].		'''RAF Mauripur''' was a [[Royal Air Force]] station in [[British India]] 4 miles north west of the centre of [[Karachi]]. It is now known as [[Masroor Airbase]].

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{{Short description|Former Royal Air Force station in British India}}
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{{Use British English|date=November 2022}}
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'''RAF Mauripur''' was a [[Royal Air Force]] station in [[British India]] 4 miles north west of the centre of [[Karachi]]. It is now known as [[Masroor Airbase]].

==History==
RAF Mauripur opened in 1942 as a transit airfield allowing [[RAF Drigh Road]] to concentrate on maintenance. Huge numbers of aircraft staged through Mauripur during and after the end of World War II.<ref>''SANDSCRIPT, The Journal of the RAF Mauripur Association.</ref> British units continued to use the airfield after the creation of Pakistan in 1947, finally leaving in 1956.<ref>''SANDSCRIPT, The Journal of the RAF Mauripur Association.</ref> The RAF airfields at [[RAF Gan|Gan]] and [[RAF Masirah|Masirah]] took over [[RAF Far East Air Force]] staging duties from Mauripur and [[RAF Habbaniya|Habbaniya]] (which became unavailable from 14 July 1958 after the [[14 July Revolution|revolution]] in [[Iraq]]).

==Units and aircraft==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Unit
!Dates
!Aircraft
!Variant
!Notes
|-
|[[No. 5 Squadron RAF]]
|1947
|[[Hawker Tempest]]
|F2
|Single-engined (piston) fighter
|-
|[[No. 10 Squadron RAF]]
|1946-1947
|[[C-47 Skytrain|Douglas Dakota]]
|
|Twin-engined piston transport
|-
|[[No. 20 Squadron RAF]]
|1947
|[[Hawker Tempest]]
|F2
|
|-
|[[No. 31 Squadron RAF]]
|1946 and 1947
|Douglas Dakota
|
|Was 77 Sqn
|-
|[[No. 62 Squadron RAF]]
|1947
|Douglas Dakota
|
|
|-
|[[No. 77 Squadron RAF]]
|1945-1946
|Douglas Dakota
|
|Renumbered 31 Sqn
|-
|[[No. 117 Squadron RAF]]
|1943
|Douglas Dakota
|
|
|-
|[[No. 267 Squadron RAF]]
|1945-1946
|Douglas Dakota
|
|Detachments from Mingaladon
|-
|[[No. 298 Squadron RAF]]
|1946
|[[Handley Page Halifax]]
|A7
|Four-engined piston heavy bomber transport conversion
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}
* {{cite book |last= Jefford |first= C.G. |title= RAF Squadrons |year=1988 |publisher= Airlife Publishing Ltd |isbn= 1-85310-053-6}}
* {{cite book |title= SANDSCRIPT, The Journal of the RAF Mauripur Association |date=1996{{ndash}}2014 |publisher= RAF Mauripur Association}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081010125143/http://rafmauripur.org.uk/ RAF Mauripur Association Website]
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/36/a4282436.shtml The strike at R.A.F Mauripur]

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[[Category:World War II sites in Pakistan|Maur]]
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