Palavir

[1] Little is known about the Palmach's flying platoon due to its short life and its secrecy during the British Mandate.The Palavir fell under the command of the unofficial Jewish defense force Haganah and operated prior to the establishment of the State of Israel.The 'Palavir' acquired its first aircraft, the de Havilland D.H.82C Tiger Moth in 1936 when the Yishuv leader, David Ben-Gurion, managed to purchase one from Britain.It was flown in by a British flight instructor named Grey and registered under the marks G-ACYN, with serial number 3314.For the remainder of Palavir's existence, it began to operate out of Haifa further north, enabling the Tiger Moths to photograph Syrian army camps in the Golan.
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