116Sqn F-35I lines up to land on 03R following a RF 23-2 mission

Ovda has a huge storage / dump site on the south western part of the airfield. Through the years hundreds of withdrawn from use Israeli Air Force aircraft could be found here. This A-4N is such an example.

Ovda has a huge storage / dump site on the south western part of the airfield. Through the years hundreds of withdrawn from use Israeli Air Force aircraft could be found here. This A-4H is such an example.

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.

This early F-16A has US serial 79-0302.

This airframe was the last F-16B out of eight ordered under the FMS "Peace Marble I" Program, which also consisted of 67 single seat F-16A's. 017 is US FY 78-0362.

US FY 78-0342, originally destined for Iran, this airframe was "diverted" to Israel under the Foreign Military Sales program "Peace Marble I" in early 1980. It first went to 110 Squadron in Ramat David, then to 253 Squadron in Ramon and ended up with 116 Squadron in Nevatim. It achieved one kill and was one of eight F-16A's participating in the historic June 7, 1981 raid on Iraq's nuclear reactor "Osirak". The raid was coded "Operation Opera" and 243 was flown by the late Ilan Ramon, Israel's first astronaut who lost his life in the 2003 Columbia disaster.

F-16B-10-CF Netz

F-16B-5-CF Netz

116 squadron marking