'Imperial Airways airplane landing at Amman.' Photo by: Clarence Sorensen / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

temporarily stored due to war

The UK sent forces to Jordan in July 1958 in support of King Hussein. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Ex FMS 82-24097

Ex FMS 75-0620. Sold civil N617TA

During a combat deployment against ISIS in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, F-16A J-631 was deployed to Jordan to fly missions over Iraq and Syria. Here, the Viper is seen in that dusty environment, equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMs on its wingtips and a GBU-12 Paveway II underneath its right wing. J-631 is a Fokker built F-16A (FMS 80-3631, Fokker c/n L-128), it made its first flight on 25 Mar'83, was delivered to the KLu on 2 May'83 and assigned to 311sq. Late '83 the F-16 was transferred as F-16A(R) to recce sqn 306sq. It was modified to AM in 2000. It is stored at Volkel since Aug'20.

During a combat deployment against ISIS in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, F-16A J-136 was deployed to Jordan to fly missions over Iraq and Syria. Here, the Viper is seen in that dusty environment, equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMs on its wingtips and a GBU-12 Paveway II underneath its right wing. J-136 is a Fokker built F-16A (FMS 85-0136, Fokker c/n L-232), it made its first flight on 30 Jul'87, was delivered to the KLu on 31 Jul'87, was modified to AM in 1998.

During a combat deployment against ISIS in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, F-16A J-515 was deployed to Jordan to fly missions over Iraq and Syria. Here, the Viper is seen in that dusty environment and taking off for another anti-ISIS mission, equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMs on its wingtips and a GBU-12 Paveway II underneath its right wing. J-515 is a Fokker built F-16A (FMS 87-0515, Fokker c/n L-277), it made its first flight on 29 Mar'90, was delivered to the KLu on 3 Aypr'90, was modified to AM in 1998.

During a combat deployment against ISIS in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, F-16A J-624 was deployed to Jordan to fly missions over Iraq and Syria. Here, the Viper is seen in that dusty environment, equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMs on its wingtips and two GBU-12 Paveway IIs as well as a single GBU-54 JDAM underneath its wings. This is a Fokker built F-16A, it made its first flight on 30 Nov'82, was delivered to the KLu on 6 Dec'82, was modified to AM in '99 and withdrawn from use in Apr'20. The F-16 was sold to Belgium as 'LB-061' where it acts as an instructional airframe at Kleine Brogel.

During a combat deployment against ISIS in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, F-16A J-136 was deployed to Jordan to fly missions over Iraq and Syria. Here, the Viper is seen in that dusty environment, equipped with AIM-120 AMRAAMs on its wingtips and Small Diameter Bombs underneath its left wing. J-136 is a Fokker built F-16A (FMS 85-0136, Fokker c/n L-232), it made its first flight on 30 Jul'87, was delivered to the KLu on 31 Jul'87, was modified to AM in 1998.

Ex FMS 82-24078

Over Jordan