Fate of Prototype Aircraft
When the IAI Lavi was cancelled on August 30, 1987, a total of five airframes had been built. Prototypes B-01 and B-02 were completed prototypes, while B-03, B-04, and B-05 were incomplete. Parts from B-01 and B-02 were pulled to complete B-03 as the private-venture technology demonstrator (TD) aircraft. The gutted airframe of B-02 was put in the Israeli Air Force museum at the Hatzerim Airbase for static display, and the remaining units, B-01, B-04 and B-05, were all scrapped.
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