"The Lebanese Air Force"

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The Lebanese Air Force (Arab: القوات اللبنانية اللبنانية اللبنانية), is the air force of Lebanon's armed forces.

History of History

The Lebanese Air Force was established in 1949 under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Amiel in Westini, who was later the commander of the army. Soon after it was established, Britain, France and Italy contributed several aircraft. The UK contributed to four training jets and 2 training jets, Italy contributed 4 bombers from Mercury.79 which were mainly used for transport. In 1953, 16 fighter jets of De Havaland and Pierre were first received. The aircraft were received in 1959 and 1977. In 1968, 12 Mirage III aircraft were annexed, but they were captured in the late 1970s as a result of budget shortages. In 2000, the Mirage jets were sold to Pakistan.

Today, in the absence of advanced fixed-aircraft aircraft, the aircraft were mainly relying on helicopters and the pilot aircraft that were returned to operations for the end of 2008.

The Lebanese Air Force consists of six pilots divided between three air force bases.

History of Battle
The Lebanese Air Force has a long history of major use of the pilot aircraft. One pilot plane was shot by the 119 Israeli squadron at the beginning of the Six-Day War by avoiding the participation of the Lebanese Air Force in the fighting. On September 17, 1983, the last battle of the Lebanese Air Force was held, three F.Mk.70 pilot aircraft were sent to attack draconian positions. One of the planes was hit and crashed, and his pilot was able to barely abandon the sea. The other abandoned was severely damaged and a rape landing. The third pilot did not return to his base but flew to the Croatian in Cyprus, where the pilot requested a diplomatic shelter.

The pilot plane was finalized in 1994 following an event during a train flight landing. The remaining hybrid planes were stored at the Rik airport. The last loss of the pilot plane occurred in 1989, following a malfunction during the pilot training flight, he was forced to abandon the sea and the plane crashed. The pilot was rescued by the Syrian army and transferred to Suleiman Pragja, who transferred it to the Lebanese army forces.

In May 2007, a confrontation between the Lebanese army and a radical Muslim organization called Fatah Al-Islam, which was based in the Palestinian refugee camp Al-Bard in the north of the country. Due to a shortage of regular airplanes, the number of Bell UH-1 helicopters have been launched, all they can carry an 82 mark and sign bombs 83. The adjustments were made by engineers in cooperation with the Lebanese Air Force. Most helicopters cannot carry out such bombs, compared to an attack plane. This has become one of the rare events in history in which such action is carried out. In addition, extensive use of Irossiel Gazel helicopters which were exposed to NAV missiles.

Symbolism of the Beginning
The symbol of the beginning - the symbol of the junction contains within it the tree of the cedar of Lebanon and wings surrounded by two nobles on the background of blue.
Rowund – contains a green circle that represents the Lebanon Erez, the circle is inside a white triangle surrounded by a red circle representing the colors of the Lebanese flag.

The Air Force Bases
The Lebanese Air Force has three bases:
The International Airport of Riff Al-Hariri
Squadron 8
The 10th Squadron
Squadron 11
Pilot 16
The Ryak Airport
Pilot 2
12 Squadron
Pilot 15
Ramallah Airport Muhammad
Pilot 14

The aircraft

Accidents and Accidents

Non-fatal accidents
On November 20, 2010, during a display in honor of the Lebanese Independence Day, the Robinson R44 helicopter carried out an emergency landing on a highway following a malfunction in the engine that stopped working. No damage to the helicopter or pilot.
On December 3, 2010, an emergency landing was carried out by the Irossiel Gazol helicopter. The two pilots were not injured, the helicopter was easily damaged.

fatal accidents
On 12 May 2006, a helicopter crashed at UH-1, all four