Ramon Airbase

Ramon Airbase
IATA: none – ICAO: LLRM
Summary
Airport type		Military
Location		Mitzpe Ramon
Elevation AMSL		2,126 ft / 648 m
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
07R/25L	10,007	3,050	asphalt
07L/25R	10,007	3,050	asphalt

Ramon Airbase (Hebrew: בסיס חיל-האוויר רמון‎, 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 (Hebrew: כנף 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. Its current commander is Col. Ziv Levi.

Units

• 113th Squadron – operating AH-64D
• 119th Squadron – operating F-16I
• 190th Squadron – operating AH-64
• 201st Squadron – operating F-16I
• 253rd Squadron – operating F-16I

See also

• List of airports in Israel and the occupied territories

External links

• Ramon Airbase
• Mitzpe Ramon Airfield