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Designation Year Year Hebrew designation Airspeed Oxford/Consul: 1949: 1961: Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master: 2014-Lavi (young lion) לביא Avro Anson: 1949: 1961: Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet
Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor Ashdod after which it is named. However, there have been no fighter jets stationed there since 2021, only patrol aircraft, UAVs and defense missiles. A Combined Operations Center for the US military and Israel has also been built there in 2021. [1]
Retired: Piper PA-18, Fokker S-11, Cessna 180, Cessna 206, Piaggio P.149, Dornier Do 27, Dornier Do 28 Active: Beechcraft Super King Air , Beechcraft C-12 Huron , Beechcraft Bonanza Active
The IAF overwhelmingly consists of American-made aircraft that also include Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. Israel also flies a large fleet of F-15s and recently signed a $5.2 billion deal for ...
On January 13, 1975, Gef Yas'or was established in the squadron and it continued to operate both types of helicopters until 1991, when the Super Farlon helicopters went out of service. In May 1977, a Yasir helicopter belonging to the squadron crashed with 10 crew members and another 44 paratrooper brigade fighters, in a disaster known as the ...
Over Israel's northern skies, an Israeli AH-64 Apache attack helicopter recently shot down a Hezbollah drone with its cannon as the country's air defenses find it difficult to intercept all of the ...
On February 4, 1966, a huge fire broke out in Beit Zim in Tel Aviv. The squadron's S-58 helicopter was launched and rescued 30 survivors from the roof of the building. [7] On July 1, 1969, two helicopters from the squadron participated in the "Bostan 25A" operation in the area of Ras Zafarna in Egypt. [8]
The armed wings of the Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah factions said in separate statements that their gunmen were detonating bombs against Israeli military vehicles in the three West Bank areas.