Delivered to the USAF on 07 April 1945 as 44-76699, it was sold to the Royal Air Force as KN503 and later to the Armee de l'Air as 476699. It entered civil service as F-RASV, F-RAZD, F-RBFB, F-RAOE, F-RASE and F-SCOD before sold to Israel on 27 January 1967. With the Israel Defense Force Air Force, the Dakota was serialled 037/4X-FNW and became an Electronic Intelligence aircraft. The sneaky Dak was later reserialled to 042. It served 120sq and 122sq and was the very last operational Dakota of the Israeli Air Force.

Operated by Imperial Airways. Dating approximate. Built in 1931, scrapped in 1938. Photo from: Library of Congress

Delivered on 30 July 1937. Impressed in 1940 and converted to an armed maritime patrol aircraft, AX659. Used by No 119 Sqn at RAF Bowmore, on Loch Indaal, Isle of Islay, Scotland, between March 1941 and 22 August 1941 when it crashed into the loch. Photo by: Library of Congress

At the Lido on the Sea of Galilee. Centurion crashed and sank in the Hoogly River in Calcutta on 12 June 1939. Photo from: Library of Congress

This 1997 built Grand Caravan first flew for six years as N103VE with Viking Express before being sold to Air Paradive in May 2003. Air Paradive owns and operates the HaBonim airstrip, located 20km south of Haifa and running parallel next to the Tel Aviv - Haifa railway. The company was founded by a former Israel AF F-16 pilot but it is THE skydive center in Israel, with the very nice beach close by. That's what keeps the Caravan busy, but leaves no time to add a nicer color to the airplane...

This aircraft served with the RAF as EN145 and in Italy as MM4116. Please note the nice squadron markings on the engine.

Three kill marks are carried and the main body of the aircraft can be seen here

The IAF flew 35 Gloster Meteors of four different versions (T.7, F.8, FR.9 & NF.13). This aircraft was part of the Tel Nof base collection in May 1982. There is an all silver Meteor T7 in the collection of the IAF Museum at Hatzerim AFB painted with the serial number "15" which may be the same aircraft.

Three Grumman TBM Avengers were imported by Israeli operators for agricultural use in the late 1960s or early 1970s and some flew on spraying contracts in Greece. In July 1978 the three aircraft were parked on the northeast side of Herzlia Airport still wearing their US registrations. Pictured are (L to R) N7850C (msn 2094, ex US Navy 69355), N6582D (ex-Royal Canadian Navy 385) and N6829C (msn 4646, ex US Navy 91741) with registrations confirmed from my other photographs. N7850C is now preserved at the IAF Museum at Hatzerim AFB and N6582D was seen in Nov. 2017 being restored at Herzlia Airport. The fate of N6829C is not known.

Tel Nof was home for the Israeli Air Force flight academy until 1966 when it moved to the newly-opened Hatzerim AFB near Beer Sheva. North American T-6, No. 08, was one of two T-6/Harvards in the collection of the Tel Nof base museum in May 1982.

Tel Nof AFB was the home for the Israeli Air Force flight academy until 1966 when it moved to the newly-opened Hatzerim AFB near Beer Sheva. This Stearman was part of the Tel Nof AFB base aircraft collection in May 1982. There have been very few recent reports regarding aircraft preserved at the Tel Nof AFB. I suspect that many of the aircraft I photographed 1982 were transferred to the IAF Museum at Hatzerim, other IAF bases or scrapped.

This Noratlas was part of the Tel Nof base collection in May 1982, but later status is unknown. When the IAF Noratlas fleet was retired in the 1970s, about a dozen could be seen parked in a field on the south side of Ben Gurion Airport (TLV) to the west of the original airport terminal in the summer of 1978. These aircraft were scrapped by the summer of 1981.

The Israeli Air Force base at Tel Nof near Rehovot had a number of preserved aircraft on display inside the main gate to the base including this Douglas C-47 wearing the serial number 59. A number of the aircraft at Tel Nof were later moved to the IAF Museum at Hatzerim AFB. The version and actual ID of this C-47 is not known as well as its current status. It does not appear on recent lists of preserved IAF C-47s.

The Israeli Air Force acquired two Sikorsky S-55s in October 1952 from the United States which were flown by 103 Squadron. This aircraft is believed to be IAF Serial No. 02 (msn 55-992) which later joined the collection of the IAF Museum at Hatzerim AFB and received new paint.

Tel Nof Air Force Base was home for the Israeli Air Force flight academy until 1966 when it moved to the newly-opened Hatzerim AFB near Beer Sheva. This North American T-6, 48, was on display at the Tel Nof base museum in May 1982. Actual ID and model of aircraft unknown.

The Israeli Air Force flew 17 single-seat Vautour IIAs including aircraft No. 12 which was photographed at the Tel Nof AFB museum in May 1982. This aircraft is now believed to be part of the historic collection of the IAF Technical School located next to Haifa Airport.

The Israeli Air Force flew a number of Sud Aviation SE-3130 and SA318C Alouette II helicopters. Alouette II, No. 12, was displayed at Tel Nof AFB in May 1982. It may now be part of the collection of the IAF Museum at Hatzerim AFB (wearing serial number 19 which is overpainted)

FMS serial 78-0321 was handed over to the IAF on 9 September 1980. It arrived in Israel in late November 1980 and was assigned to 117sq. It also served 253sq (where it received the Syrian kill marking), 116sq (as shown on this picture), then 140sq and then again 116sq. Since May 2015, this Netz is stored at Tel Nof.