Milestones
April 23, 1956 |
First flights of Danny Shapira with the Vautour in France |
June 21, 1956 |
Evaluation flights by Beni Peled, in France |
February 1957 |
Israeli delegation, headed by D. Shapira, arrives Mont de Marsan. Shapita and
Somekh perform test flights on various Vautour prototypes and pre-production subtypes |
April 1957 |
Contract for the purchase of 28 Vautours is signed. Yoash Tssidon is appointed
head of the "Vautour project" |
May 1957 |
The first Israeli aircrews arrive to Tour for conversion. |
August 1st, 1957 |
First Vautour arrives to Israel, and stored |
April 1958 |
The Vautour purchase is revealed. The stored Vautours are conveyed to the squadrons |
End of 1958 |
The Vautour squdrons are declared operational and set to alerts |
March 10, 1959 |
The last Vautour of the 28 ordered, arrives to Israel |
June 7, 1959
| First enemy encounter. 2 Vautours of Sqn. 110 vs. 4 Mig-17 |
February 23, 1960 |
The Vautours discover a huge deployment of the Egyptian army in Sinai |
July 14, 1961 |
First nocturnal photo sortie, over several Egyptian airfields |
January 23, 1962 |
A daring, night reconnaissaince sortie to the Egyptian Delta, is caried out |
March 16, 1962 |
The first operational ground attack is taking place, Tauafik, Syrian Heights.
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March 20, 1963 |
The most distant PR sortie, to Ras-Banas, Upper Egypt, is performed |
July 1963 |
The Vautour IIN are transferred to Sqn. 110, and converted to the role of leaders-attackers |
October 18, 1963 |
The existence of SA-2 missiles in Egypt is proved by a Vautour PR mission |
November 13, 1964 |
The Vautours carry out, very successfuly, a massive attack of Syrian posts |
June 5 -10 1967 |
Sqn. 110 Vautours strike, The Six Days War |
1968 - 1969 |
The Vautours participate in attacking terrorist bases in all fronts
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July 1969 - August 1970 |
Participation of the Vautours in long-distance attacks of Egyptian targets, the War of Attrition, operations "Boxer" |
August 1970 |
Sqn. 110 receives its first Skyhawks. A Vautour detachment still active |
mid. 1971 |
The Vautours, except for 3, are withdrawn. The squadron reforms to A-4E. |
March |
Vautours in flying condition conveyed to Sinai, to become "realistic" decoys.
The last photo-ecm aircraft end their service. |