Sherut Avir (SA) (in English: Air Service) was the air force of the Haganah and the forerunner of the Israeli Air Force.
Sherut Avir was founded in November, 1947, just two weeks prior to the passing of the 1947 UN Partition Plan which divided Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state. It was at this time Haganah leaders brought the Palmach's air branch, Palavir out of...