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Hatzerim Airbase

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Airport type
  
Military

Location
  
Beersheba

10R/28L
  
9,022

Elevation
  
220 m

Operator
  
Israeli Air Force

Elevation AMSL
  
722 ft / 220 m

9,022
  
2,750

Hatzerim Airbase

Address
  
Merhavim Regional Council, Israel

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Hatzerim Israeli Air Force Base (Hebrew: בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר חֲצֵרִים‎, Bsis Heil HaAvir Hatzerim) (ICAO: LLHB) is an air base of the Israeli Air Force in the Negev Desert on the west outskirts of Beersheba, near Kibbutz Hatzerim. The base was constructed during the early 1960s and declared operational on 3 October 1966, the first air base located on a former Royal Air Force base. At Hatzerim is the Israeli Air Force Museum, which opened in 1977 and has allowed public access since June 1991. The IAF Flight Academy has been housed at Hatzerim since April 1966 and the IAF Aerobatic Team is located there as well.

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Units

  • 69 Squadron (Israel) F-15I
  • 102 Squadron (Israel) M.346 Lavi
  • 107 Squadron (Israel) F-16I
  • 123 Squadron (Israel) UH-60 Black Hawk

    • Commanders

  • Colonel "Joe" Yosef Alon (first commander and founder)
  • Yaakov Turner (1977-1981)
  • Brigadier General Amiram Elyasaf
  • Brigadier General Amos Yadlin (1995-1998)
  • Brigadier General Roni Falec (1998-2001)
  • Brigadier General Yohanan Lucker (2001-2004)
  • Brigadier General Shelly Gutman
  • Brigadier General Tal Kalman

    • References

    Hatzerim Airbase Wikipedia
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