Fik Airfield (also known as Pik) is an airfield in the

Golan Heights The Golan Heights, or simply the Golan, is a basaltic plateau at the southwest corner of Syria. It is bordered by the Yarmouk River in the south, the Sea of Galilee and Hula Valley in the west, the Anti-Lebanon mountains with Mount Hermon in t ...

, occupied by

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, near the Israeli settlement and kibbutz

Afik Afik () is an Israeli settlement organized as a kibbutz in the Golan Heights. It was established in 1972 close to the abandoned Syrian village of Fiq following Israel's capture and occupation of the Golan Heights in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. I ...

. The airfield is used for

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activity and operated by the

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. Fik has seen traffic drop in recent years, but is used by

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to test their

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s. The airfield was the site of Israel's 2001

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championship, and there is talk of converting it into a

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