page_title: RAF Maintenance Base Safi
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Maintenance Base Safi
caption_attribution_description: Royal Air Force Air Officer Commanding Malta, Air Vice Marshal Keith Park, about to taxi out in his personal Supermarine Spitfire V to mark the opening of Malta's new airstrip at Safi.
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Safi was a Royal Air Force maintenance base located on the island of Malta, which started life in 1941 as a diversion airstrip for the main operating bases such as nearby RAF Luqa. Other diversion airstrips similar in function to Safi were located at RAF Krendi and on Malta's second island of Gozo.
context_section_description: Royal Air Force Safi was a Royal Air Force maintenance base located on the island of Malta, which started life in 1941 as a diversion airstrip for the main operating bases such as nearby RAF Luqa. Other diversion airstrips similar in function to Safi were located at RAF Krendi and on Malta's second island of Gozo.
caption: RAF Safi is officially inaugurated by Air Vice Marshal Keith Park in 1943.
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