Rosh Pina Airport

Rosh Pina Airport שדה התעופה ראש פינה‎ مطار روش بينا
AMSL		922 ft / 281 m
Coordinates	32°58′51.77″N 35°34′18.87″E / 32.9810472°N 35.5719083°E / 32.9810472; 35.5719083
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Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 3,190 972 Asphalt 15/33 3,655 1,114 Asphalt

Rosh Pina Airport (

The airport was built in 1943 during the

Since the closure of Tel Aviv-Sde Dov, which was the only destination served from Rosh Pina by Ayit Aviation and Tourism^[3] there are currently no more scheduled flights at the airport.

Statistics

Since the beginning of the century the airport saw decreasing number of passengers. The drop off in passenger volume has been attributed to major upgrades undertaken on the road infrastructure to the northern periphery of Israel since the early 2000s, leading to a viable alternative to air service to the region. (For example, Egged bus №845, which as of July 2019 travels from Rosh Pina to Tel Aviv in about an hour and 45 minutes.) Most flights from Rosh Pina were to Sde Dov Airport in Tel Aviv. However, Sde Dov closed in mid-2019, making travel by air from Tel Aviv to Rosh Pina even less convenient.

Accidents

• On 19 April 1974 two Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters collided over the airport. One of the helicopters managed to land safely while the other helicopter crashed and caught fire. All 8 IDF soldiers on board died.
• On 4 February 1997 two
  Israeli Security Zone in southern Lebanon. The helicopters collided over She'ar Yashuv in northern Israel and crashed, killing all 73 IDF soldiers on board (see 1997 Israeli helicopter disaster
  ).

External links

Media related to Ben Ya'akov Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Rosh Pina Airport