Israeli Air Force Museum facts for kids

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The Israeli Air Force Museum is located at Hatzerim Airbase in the Negev desert.

The museum was established in 1977 and has been open to the public since 1991. The museum displays a variety of Israeli Air Force and foreign aircraft, as well as anti aircraft arms.

Aircraft on display

Israeli air force aircraft

Aérospatiale Alouette II Aerospatiale Super Frelon Aerospatiale Super Frelon Augusta / Bell UH-1 - #002 Augusta / Bell UH-1 - #026 Avia S-199 Beechcraft Queen Air Bell AH-1G Cobra Bell AH-1 Cobra Bell 206 Boeing KC-97 - #039 Masada Boeing KC-97 Boeing 707 - Operation Thunderbolt flying command post Boeing 707 - radar testbed Boeing-Stearman Kaydet - maintained in airworthy condition Britten Norman Islander Cessna 172 Consolidated PBY Catalina Dassault Mirage III - #158 Dassault Mirage III - #159, Re-acquired from Argentina Dassault Mystere IV Dassault Mystere IV - #60 Dassault Ouragan - #49 Dassault Ouragan - #80 Dassault Super Mystere De Havilland Dragon Rapide De Havilland Tiger Moth Dornier Do 27 Dornier Do 28 Douglas DC-3 - #038 Fokker S-11 Fouga Magister Fouga Magister - IAI Tzukit variant General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon - #107 with 6.5 kill markings Gloster Meteor - #06 Gloster Meteor - Gate guard Gloster Meteor - NF-13 Variant Gloster Meteor - NF-13 Variant Gloster Meteor - #15 Gloster Meteor - #18 Grumman E-2C - #944 Hughes 500

The Black Spitfire IAI Arava - #203 IAI Kfir - #712 IAI Kfir TC - #988, modified Mirage IIIB IAI Kfir - #529, gate guard IAI Kfir - #451 Prism reconnaissance variant IAI Kfir - #310, TC-2 variant IAI Lavi IAI Nesher IAI Westwind - modified testbed aircraft McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - #323 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - transparent panels display aircraft interior McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - #498, F-4E(S) reconnaissance aircraft McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - Kurnass 2000 #614 McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - #229 Super Phantom McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II - #297, Manat test aircraft McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom II - #485 North American Harvard - #14 North American Harvard - #001, maintained in airworthy condition North American P-51D Mustang North American P-51D Mustang Nord Noratlas - #045, 4X-FAE Pilatus PC-6 Piper Super Cub Republic RC-3 Seabee Sikorsky CH-53 - #471 Sikorsky S-55 - #03 Sikorsky S-58 - #07 SOCATA Trinidad Sud-Ouest Vautour - #09 Hamashhit (Defiler) Sud-Ouest Vautour - #33 Big Brother Sud-Ouest Vautour - #70 Phantomas Supermarine Spitfire - LF Mk.IXe TE554, The Black Spitfire, former Israeli Air Force 20-57, maintained in airworthy condition Supermarine Spitfire - LF Mk.IXe SL653, former Israeli Air Force 20-28 Supermarine Spitfire - F Mk.IXe EN145, former Israeli Air Force 20-78 Taylorcraft Auster

Foreign Types

Former Syrian MiG-23 at the IAF Museum

• Aerospatiale Gazelle - Former Syrian aircraft, captured 1982.
• De Havilland Vampire - liveried as Lebanese Air Force aircraft
• De Havilland Venom - liveried as Iraqi Air Force aircraft
• Hawker Hunter - Former Chilean example (J-747, ex-XF445), liveried as Royal Jordanian Air Force aircraft.
• Grumman TBM-3E Avenger - BuNo. 69355
• MiG-15 - former Polish aircraft, bearing Egyptian livery.
• MiG-17
• MiG-21 - #007, liveried as Operation Diamond aircraft
• MiG-21 - #339, two seat variant, acquired 2011 from IAI via Romania. ex Madagascar AF aircraft.
• MiG-23 - Former Syrian aircraft, defected 1989.
• Mil Mi-24 - Acquired 2011.

Partial remains

Tail of Egyptian Su-7 shot down October 6, 1973

• Bristol Beaufighter - remains of Israeli aircraft shot down 1948, retrieved 1994.
• De Havilland Mosquito
• Hiller 360
• MiG-17 - remains of Syrian aircraft shot down over the Sea of Galilee in 1966
• MiG-19 - Tail of Egyptian aircraft shot down in 1967
• Noorduyn Norseman
• Sukhoi Su-7 - Tail of Egyptian aircraft shot down during Yom Kippur War
• Tupolev Tu-16 - remains of Iraqi aircraft shot down in 1967

Anti Aircraft Weapons

Anti Aircraft Artillery

• ZSU-23-4 Shilka
• ZSU-57-2

Missiles and AA systems

• SA-2 Guideline - mobile launcher
• SA-2 Guideline - static launcher

Images for kids

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  IAI Kfir

See also

In Spanish: Museo de la Fuerza Aérea de Israel para niños