Israeli Air Force Museum

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.^[1]
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 - #4010, Acquired 2004^[2]

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

Missiles and AA systems

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

Other Vehicles

References

^ Griffin, David J. (2006). Hawker Hunter 1951 to 2007. Lulu.com. p. 273. ISBN 9781430305934.
^ "Mi-24D 4010 : Mil Mi-24D". www.armedconflicts.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.

Bibliography

Warnes, Alan (March–April 1999). "Hatzerim Album: Spitfires and Meteors at the Israeli Defence Force Museum". Air Enthusiast (80): 76–77. ISSN 0143-5450.

External links

31°14′18″N 34°41′46″E / 31.238343°N 34.696026°E / 31.238343; 34.696026

[1] Griffin, David J. (2006). Hawker Hunter 1951 to 2007. Lulu.com. p. 273. ISBN 9781430305934.

[2] "Mi-24D 4010 : Mil Mi-24D". www.armedconflicts.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.

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