The remaining RAF units vacated Deversoir following the coup that saw Gamal Abdel Nasser seize power in June 1956.

It was built part of the defences of the Suez Canal, being constructed at the northwest shore of the Great Bitter Lake.

The airfield received United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on 12 February 1945 as he flew from the Yalta Conference to rejoin the USS Quincy, which was anchored in the Great Bitter Lake and would host the President's meetings with King Farouk of Egypt, King Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia before transporting him back to the United States.

[3] Modern hardened aircraft shelters were built on wartime-era dispersal pads, and recent runway markings are evident in aerial photography.

Some time near the end of WW2 the station had been used to house Italian prisoners of war and this was evidenced by a painting done by one of them which was present in 1950 – 1952 in one of the cookhouse dining room for other ranks.