Visiting Gilze Rijen in the early morning, together with a sister Chinook. This RAF Chinook was delivered on 30 August 1981 as a HC1, it was later converted to HC2. The heavy lift helicopter was damaged during a night training mission with Special Forces in Oman, 5 miles south of Seeb on 25 November 1999. It was flown back to Brize Norton on 13 Dec'99 aboard An-124 (RA-82046) and repaired at Fleetlands using parts of former a Argentinian Army CH-47C. It was converted to HC4 in 2014 and to HC6A in 2019.

This 19 June 1970 delivered NF-5A was part of the Vliegend Uit Dienst (VUD, Fly Away from Service), also reported as Vervroegd Uit Dienst (Early Retirement from Service), section at Gilze Rijen. K-3012 was kept in flyable storage after its operational career with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) before it was sold and flown over to Greece as 3012 on 11 April 1991. It Freedom Fighter is here seen in the hangar next to the cross servicing platform of Gilze Rijen.

This NF-5B just entered the Vliegend Uit Dienst (VUD, Fly Away from Service), also reported as Vervroegd Uit Dienst (Early Retirement from Service), section at Gilze Rijen. It still carried the unit markings of its last operational owner, 315sq. K-4030 was kept in flyable storage after its operational career with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) before it was sold and flown over to Venezuela as 6372 on 2 March 1993. Because of the fyable storage, the NF-5A/Bs with the VUD markings were sometimes seen outside at the cross servicing platform of Gilze Rijen.

Delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Forced) on 17 October 1970, this NF-5A was withdrawn from use in 1986. It was kept in a flyable storage for possible sale but was eventually stored and became an instructional airframe at the Anthony Fokker School in The Hague in the early 90s. It then moved to the National Aviation College in Hoofddorp in the mid-90s. After the NF-5 became useless, it was transported to the National Military Museum at Soesterberg for preservation from early 2019. Of notice on this picture is the grey (new?) wing attached the camouflaged fuselage.

Vliegend Uit Dienst (Fly Away from Service), also reported as Vervroegd Uit Dienst (Early Retirement from Serrvice), this K-3035 was kept in flyable storage after its operational career with the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (Royal Netherlands Air Force) before it was sold and flown over to Türkiye as 3035 on 20 December 1991. Because of the fyable storage, the NF-5A/Bs with the VUD markings were sometimes seen outside.

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1953 flood disaster in southwestern Netherlands. Ex PH-HAA, 8-1 (H-1) Jezebel was the country's sole helicopter at the time. Foreign helicopters also came to the rescue, including machines of the Royal Navy, US Army and Sabena. Photo from: Zeeuws Archief

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