LLMG
Megiddo Airport
VFR
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Name
Megiddo Airport
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ICAO / GPS
LLMG / LLMG
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- Region
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Timezone
12:58 pm (EET)
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Municipality
Afula
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Coordinates
32° 35′ 50″ N 35° 13′ 43″ E
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Elevation
200 ft (61 m MSL)
About Megiddo Airport
Megiddo Airfield (Hebrew: מנחת מגידו) (IATA: N/A, ICAO: LLMG), known as Shachar 7 by the Israel Defense Forces, is an Israeli airfield located in the Jezreel Valley near Tel Megiddo and 3 km (1.9 mi) southwest of Afula. It opened in 1942 as RAF Station Megiddo and was used as an auxiliary field to RAF Ramat David. It was used by 6 & 208 Squadron's.
It currently handles private and agricultural flights. It formerly served as an Israeli Air Force base and was decommissioned in the mid-1980s.