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

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 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

Partial remains

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

Anti Aircraft Weapons

Anti Aircraft Artillery

Missiles and AA systems

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