Mr. Mohamed Nazhat bin Mohamed Fuad bin Mohamed Saeed Al Yafi
(1928 – 2008)
Mohamed Nazhat was born in the family’s summer house in the town of Qatana, south of Damascus, in 1928.As a result of the movement of his father, Judge Mohamed Fuad between several Syrian courts, he studied in the schools of many Syrian cities from Daraa to Deir ez-Zor and then Damascus, continuing his secondary education in the First Tajheez High School (currently Jawdat al-Hashimi High School) after he settled in Damascus
following the death of his father. His father died when he was eight and his mother died when he was ten, when his care was transferred to his uncle Anwar bin Rushdi Al Yafi. In 1948, after he was twenty years old, he moved to Aleppo in northern Syria to join the Military Aviation School in the fourth batch of the Syrian Air Force.Aleppo Airport is considered the oldest in Syria, as it was established in 1918 AD.
Mohamed Nazhat at Al-Nairab Air Base in Aleppo (1949)