Ramon Airbase
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Ramon Airbase is an Israeli Air Force base on the highland of the Negev desert, 50 km south of Beersheba, 20 km northwest of the town Mitzpe Ramon and 17 km away from the Egyptian border to the west.
Village Mitzpe Ramon (left) and the huge "erosion crater" Makhtesh Ramon south of the airbase
The then presidents Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left to right) at Camp David (USA) in September 1978
Two A-4 Skyhawk Ayit, A-4N and A-4H (left to right), 147 Squadron "Goring Ram", the A-4 was initially based on Ramon
An F-16A Netz of 116 Squadron "Defenders Of The South", initially based on Ramon also
Hatzor Airbase
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Hatzor Airbase, also titled Kanaf 4 is an Israeli Air Force base, located in central Israel near kibbutz Hatzor Ashdod after which it is named. It has three runways, each just under 2.5 kilometers lon
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.
Amos Lapidot (right) and another Israeli fighter pilot after getting out of their Dassault Ouragan jets at Hatzor in July 1956
The French general Charles de Gaulle (tall man in the middle) visiting Camp Qastina in May 1941
An aerial photograph of the British airbase RAF Qastina from the 1940s