Avihu Ben-Nun

Avihu Ben-Nun (Hebrew: אביהו בן-נון; born 24 December 1939) was the 11th commander of the Israeli Air Force between 1987 and 1992.

On September 9, 1972, a month after handing command of 69 Squadron to Amnon Arad, Ben-Nun and navigator Zvi Kesler shot down a Syrian Sukhoi Su-7.

[3] In 1975 Ben-Nun was put in charge of Tactical Operations in the Israeli Air Force's Headquarters.

[1] Under his aegis the IAF begun operating the AH-64 Apache and took delivery of additional F-16 Fighting Falcons.

In 1992 Ben-Nun handed command of the Israeli Air Force over to Herzl Bodinger, resigning from the IDF.