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Old November 15th, 2008, 09:30 AM
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Default Re: Lebanon OOB

Don,

I've done a little more digging into the Lebanese AF.

The ever-useful Scramble site gives the current state of play:

http://www.scramble.nl/lb.htm

as you can see, the cupboard is pretty bare.


A few suggestions:

Mirage III (No.s 185/186). ISD should be circa 1970: order was placed for these a/c in 1968. OSD more likely to be 1990 - a/c sold to Pakistan in 2000 for spares recovery.

Hunter (Nos. 180/181) - ISD should be circa 1960, with OSD circa 1985. (Wiki has last combat sortie in September '83 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Air_Force ) Back into service 11/2008


SM79 (No. 550) - OSD of 1974 very optimistic - suggest 1960 (Replaced by Vampires).


I hope this is of some use/interest.
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