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  • Ramon Airbase
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  • Ramon Airbase ( , Basis Hayil-HaAvir Ramon, lit. Ramon Air Force Base) is an Israeli Air Force base southwest of Beersheba, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon. Also titled Kanaf 25 (, lit. Wing 25), it was formerly known as Matred. It was built as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after the peninsula was handed over to Egypt following the 1978 Camp David Accords. It was constructed between 1979 and 1982 by Air Base Constructors, a joint venture of Guy F. Atkinson Company, sponsor, (San Francisco); Dillingham Corporation (Honolulu); and Nello L. Teer Company (Durham, N.C.) in association with Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (New York City).
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pushpin label
  • LLRM
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elevation-m
  • 648
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ICAO
  • LLRM
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  • 30
r2-surface
  • Asphalt
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  • 4
r1-length-m
  • 3050
latm
  • 46
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  • 40
Name
  • Ramon Airbase
r1-surface
  • Asphalt
Type
  • Military
lats
  • 29
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  • E
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  • Israel
r2-length-m
  • 3050
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  • top
pushpin map caption
  • Location of the airport in Israel
r1-number
  • 7
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  • IL
latNS
  • N
longd
  • 34
r2-number
  • 7
metric-elev
  • y
metric-rwy
  • y
Location
  • Mitzpe Ramon
abstract
  • Ramon Airbase ( , Basis Hayil-HaAvir Ramon, lit. Ramon Air Force Base) is an Israeli Air Force base southwest of Beersheba, near the town of Mitzpe Ramon. Also titled Kanaf 25 (, lit. Wing 25), it was formerly known as Matred. It was built as the result of joint Israeli and US government funding as part of the IAF's redeployment out of its bases in the Sinai after the peninsula was handed over to Egypt following the 1978 Camp David Accords. It was constructed between 1979 and 1982 by Air Base Constructors, a joint venture of Guy F. Atkinson Company, sponsor, (San Francisco); Dillingham Corporation (Honolulu); and Nello L. Teer Company (Durham, N.C.) in association with Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (New York City). Its current commander is Col. Ziv Levi.
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