1947-1948		Establishment and the War of Independence
10 November 1947		Creation of Sherut Avir
14 May 1948		Israel Established
9 July 1948		End of First Truce Period
9 September 1948		Second Truce Period
14 October 1948		Operation Yoav
22 December 1948		Operation Chorev
1949-1966		Consolidation and Growth
1 June 1949		Peacetime Consolidation
mid 1953		First Helicopters
end of 1955		The Tolkovski Era
29 October 1956		The Sinai Campaign
31 December 1959		End of the Decade
1963		The Early Sixties
1967-1973		The War of Attrition Era
5 June 1967		The Six Day War
1970		The War of Attrition
6 October 1973		The Yom Kippur War
1974-2000		Lebanon and the Gulf
14 March 1978		Operation Litani
5 June 1982		Operation Peace For Galilee
17 January 1991		The First Gulf War
1996		The Mid-Nineties
2001-Present		Palestine and Lebanon
18 March 2003		The Second Gulf War
12 July 2006		Second Lebanon War
Present day		Current Order of Battle