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It was built as a rough runway in 1947 for the Sherut Avir , the air wing of the Haganah , and was named Malhata after the archaeological site on which it was partly built. It was reopened in 1983 as a new modern airbase with two runways as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after it was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords . Since 2003 the base has gradually received more squadrons of F-16s . A third runway was built in the mid-2000s decade as part of a project to accommodate the transfer of military activities previously taking place at Ben Gurion Airport (Air Force Base 27) to Nevatim. Israel's growing fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35Is are currently based in Nevatim.1
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The opening as it stood in 2010
Nevatim Israeli Air Force Base ( ICAO : LLNV ), also Air Force Base 28 , is one of the three principal airfields of the Israeli Air Force located southeast of Be'er Sheva , near the moshav of Nevatim . It was built as a rough runway in 1947 for the Sherut Avir , the air wing of the Haganah , and was named Malhata. It was reopened in 1983 as a new modern airbase with 2 runways as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after it was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords . Since 2003 the base has gradually received more squadrons of F-16s .
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It was built as a rough runway in 1947 for the Sherut Avir , the air wing of the Haganah , and was named Malhata. It was reopened in 1983 as a new modern airbase with 2 runways as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after it was returned to Egypt following the Camp David Accords . Since 2003 the base has gradually received more squadrons of F-16s . A third runway was built in the mid-2000s decade as part of a project to accommodate the transfer of military activities previously taking place at Ben Gurion International Airport (Air Force Base 27) to Nevatim.Israel's fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35I 's will be based in Nevatim starting in 2015.
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Israeli Air Force base A Dassault Mystère IV A jet from bygone times, erected on display near the east entrance of Nevatim Airbase ( 31°12′28″N 35°03′01″E  /  31.207875°N 35.050282°E  / 31.207875; 35.050282  ( Dassault Mystère IV A at Nevatim Airbase ) ) Nevatim Airbase ( Hebrew : בסיס נבטים , English: sprouts) ( IATA : VTM , ICAO : LLNV ), also Air Force Base 28 , is an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base, located 15 km east-southeast of Beersheba , near moshav Nevatim in the northern Negev desert.It is one of the largest in Israel and has three runways of different lengths.Stealth fighter jets, transport aircraft, tanker aircraft and machines for electronic reconnaissance/surveillance, as well as the Wing of Zion , are stationed there.The airbase has long been under discussion for dual use – military and civilian – as an airport for the growing city of Beersheba (see International Airport ).
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one of the three principal airfields of the israeli air force located southeast of be'er sheva
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israeli air force
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