User:Benbaruch/Hatzerim Airbase

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History
Hatzerim Airbase was constructed during the early 1960s and declared operational on 3 October 1966. The base was built on the order of the Israeli Air Force Commander, Ezer Weizmann and was designed by the architect Yitzhak Moore. The first commander of the base was Yosef Alon. It was the first Air Force base built from the ground up, as a new base for the Israeli Air Force, and not on existed base areas of the Royal Air Force.

In 1968, the base received the Israeli Air Force Flight Academy that moved from Tel Nof Airbase.

In the same year, the base received another squadron that moved from Tel Nof - 123 Squadron, the "Southern Vanity Squadron" (as it was then called), which operated Bell 205 helicopters and later Bell 212. On August 8 2002 it reopened as a UH-60 Black Hawk Squadron ("Owl"). On July 15 2015 she moved to Palmachim Airbase.

On June 17 1969 the 102 Squadron, the "Flying Tiger", moved from Hatzor Airbase to Hatzerim Airbase.

On 1 December 1971 the "'107 Squadron "Knights of the Orange Tail" was opened at the base as the F-4 Phantom Squadron. On July 5 2006 it reopened as F-16I Squadron ("Storm")

In 1978, 192 Squadron which operated E-2C Hawkeye aircraft ("Dia", the Hebrew word for Milvus) for Airborne early warning and control was established. The squadron closed in 1994, and its aircraft were taken out of service in the Israeli Air Force.

On June 4 1991, the 69 Squadron Which then operated F-4 Phantom aircraft for Hatzerim Airbase, She was closed on March 1 1994. The squadron reopened in the summer of 1997 and on January 19 1998 absorbed the first F-15I ("Thunder") aircraft of the Air Force.