140 Squadron (Israel)

140 Squadron of the Israeli Air Force (IAF), also Golden Eagle Squadron, is an F-35I Adir squadron based at Nevatim Airbase in Israel.

[1] Formerly an A-4H/N and then an F-16A/B squadron,[2] the squadron was closed in August 2013, as part of IDF budget cuts.

Its aircraft were allocated to 116 Squadron (Defenders of the South).

[citation needed] In 2015, it was announced that the "Golden Eagle" Squadron would be the first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Squadron in the IAF.

[3] The squadron received its first two aircraft in December 2016.

140 Squadron's and Israel's first two F-35I jets on its arrival at Nevatim Airbase, December 2016