Hatzor Airbase is an Israeli Air Force base near Ashdod that was previously an RAF airfield under the British Mandate. Through 2010 the opening said that on the night of 25 February 1946, "Irgun militants attacked the airbase and destroyed several parked RAF Halifax transports." Today the opening carries no mention of that attack at all; the word survives once elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the base has hosted Israeli fighter pilots and a joint US-Israel operations center, and not that Irgun fighters once attacked it and destroyed several British aircraft.
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Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military airbase, located in central Israel , near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named.1The airfield was constructed by the Royal Air Force in 1945 , during the British Mandate of Palestine , as RAF Qastina after the nearby Palestinian village of the same name. On the night of 25 February 1946, Irgun militants attacked the airbase and destroyed several parked RAF Halifax transports. Two additional RAF airfields, RAF Lydda (Ben Gurion International Airport) and RAF Kfar Sirkin , were attacked in what became known as the "Night of the Airplanes". Altogether, the attacks destroyed 20 RAF aeroplanes and damaged several others. Following these attacks, the RAF vacated some of its Palestine -based planes to Egypt . During the Israeli War of Independence , the airfield was evacuated by the British on 15 March 1948 and taken over by Haganah forces. On the morning of August 16, 1966, an Iraqi MiG-21 jet landed in Hatzor AFB. Munir Redfa , an Iraqi Air Force pilot, had been persuaded by the Mossad (The Blue Bird – Operation Diamond) to fly the flagship of the Soviet export aircraft industry to Israel. The MiG was the most advanced aircraft in Arab inventories at the time. 1946 Israeli Air Force 1966 The blue bird legend2
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Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military air base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named.
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Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military air base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. It was opened RAF Qastina in 1942 by the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the then British Protectorate of Palestine.
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Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force military air base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor after which it is named. It was opened as RAF Qastina in 1942 by the Royal Air Force of the United Kingdom in the then British Protectorate of Palestine .
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Air base in Hatzor, Israel Israeli fighter pilot Amos Lapidot , later commander of the IAF , prepares for a mission in a Dassault Ouragan jet at Hatzor Airbase in July 1956.Hatzor Airbase ( Hebrew : בָּסִיס חֵיל-הַאֲוִויר חָצוֹר ) ( ICAO : LLHS ), also titled Kanaf 4 ( lit.Wing 4) is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base, located in central Israel (but in the Southern District ) 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.
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