Aviron Aviation Company
Aviron Palestine Aviation Company[1] was established in April 1936 in Mandatory Palestine. The company was intended to train pilots and then operate a mainly internal airline, which would serve the security needs of the Yishuv, the Jewish community in Palestine.[2][3]
Name
Aviron is the word for airplane invented in 1908 either by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda or by his son Itamar Ben-Avi, the first native speaker of Modern Hebrew. In the second half of 20th century, it fell out of use in favour of matos, invented in 1928 by Hayim Nahman Bialik.[4]
History
The Aviron airline company was established in 1936 by
Two years previously, in 1934, Zionist officials who dealt with Jewish immigration from Poland obtained from David Ben-Gurion, who acted on behalf of the Jewish Agency, the money for buying a de Havilland Tiger Moth.[5] The airplane arrived in October that year, flown by a British instructor-pilot.[5]
During the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine, Aviron assisted the Haganah in reconnaissance missions and the transfer of supplies and medical aid to otherwise inaccessible settlements.[6]
Besides two teaching planes, the company operated two aircraft with three passenger seats and two with two passenger seats, offering a daily service between Lydda, Haifa and Tiberias.
Gallery
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1947 in the British Mandate of Palestine
See also
- Palavir, the air branch of the Palmach
- Sherut Avir, the air branch of the Haganah, which took over Aviron's materiel in 1947-48
- Israeli Air Force
References
- ^ "עמוד שגיאה". www.zionistarchives.org.il.
- ^ a b The Central Zionist Archives, Flights & Aviation, Retrieved 14 December 2017
- ^ a b c Degania Alef website Founding Figures: Yitzchak Ben-Yaakov Archived 2017-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 14 December 2017
- ^ "Din Online" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-11. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ a b "Good Use of Space".
- S2CID 216394093.