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Image: Improved main runway of RAF Changi after completion in 1946

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Description: View of the main runway at RAF Changi, Singapore, soon after its completion. The runway, constructed from 276,680 pierced steel sheets, was 2,000 yards in length and 50 yards wide and able to take the largest aircraft then in service with the Royal Air Force.
Title: Improved main runway of RAF Changi (now Changi Air Base) after completion in 1946.
Credit: Originally uploaded to en.wikipedia on 6 April 2008 by Dave1185; transferred to the Wikimedia Commons by Keraunoscopia.
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author Royal Air Force official photographer.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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