Two Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolts II, 80-167 & 80-270, parked just next to the piano bars of runway 29 at Stavanger - Sola.

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An Impressing performance was made of Norwegian Coast Guard Westland Lynx "232".

First flight January 2nd 1968 ast Long Beach and delivered new to KLM as PH-DNK named "City of Copenhagen" 13 days later. August 1988 N943ML, end 1988 N401ME rr. December 2003 HK-4310X, October 2004 stored at Bogota. August 2006 YV231T to 2008, then again flying from November 2010 until June 2014. KLM s daily flight to Stavanger this day was made by a DC-930 instead of the ususal DC-9-10.

Two of the new SAAB MFI 15 Safaris which followed the SAAB Safir as the military pilot school aircraft were seen dancing above the air show crowd. 0837 crashed 25 July 1989

Built 1986 and first flight as PT-SIT, became LN-KOC 12 September 1986 Norsk Air as the first of 4 Brasilias in the fleet. In March 1992 LN-KOC transferred to Widerøe/Norsk Air. To N72157 2 April 1997 N72157. March 1998 EC-GTJ Ibertrans Aereas. 15 January 2002 it was written off in an accident in mountainous terrain near Zalvidar in Spain, during a flight from Madrid to Bilbao. Seen after arriving rwy 01 this Saturday morning at the start of the main day for the Sola Air Show, as the terminal looks to be guarded by a row of F-16s.

Built 1968 and to Eastern Air Lines December 19th 1968 as N8763 and ship 763. September 25th 1972 leased to Japan Air Lines until April 6th 1976. May 2nd 1976 leased to Capitol International Airways, renamed Captiol Air in Dec. 1981. December 25th 1982 N8763 returned to Lessor and stored at Marana in full Capitol cs. May 1st 1983 N8763 ONA-Overerseas National Airways, Dec 1983 National Airlines, and Oct 1983 Airlinft International, still N8763. Oct27th 1984 EC-DVB Spantax.. January 18th 1988 ZP-CCR LAPSA, January 2nd 1995 N853AX Airborne Express, converrted to Freighter opf ABX AIr. 2006 scrap

Early morning at Sola, Saturday May 30th 1987, the main day of the 1987 Air Show. What a joy it was to see this beautiful Dakota of Flygande Veteraner standing in the morning sun.

Seen at take off rwy 36 one of the tours with passengers on board, the first day of Sola Air Show 1987. Bose of an Air UK F.27 is visible behind.

Sea King "070" seen parked the first day of Sola Air Show 1987

Built 1941, ex T6168 with RAF, and SE-COL. Registered LN-KAY May 25th 1970, and seen here taxing past us the first day of Sola Air Show 1987

Built 1966, delivered as G-ATTP to British Eagle, named "Swift". December 1967 9J-RCH Zambia Airways. Was a periond leasd to Air Malawi as 7Q-YKE, and retuinred to Zambia as 9J-RCH. March 31st 1975 G-ATTP again for Dan-Air London. From november 1991 leased to LADECO via ILFC as CC-CYM. After three years, november 1994 it has been preserved by the Museo Nacional de Aeronautica de Chile, at Los Cerillos airport at Santiago de Chile. Dan-Air is seen at take-off rwy 36 on shceduled flight back to Newcastle.

4 unkown fighters seen parked for the Sola Air Show from right to Left: A F-4 Phantom of RAF, a Saab Draken of Danish Air Force, two different kinds of Dassault Mirage from Belgian Air Force, and behind the tail of a RAF Jaguar

Built 1943 for USAAF and delivd as 43-30732. September 12th 1946 LN-IAF for Det Norske Luftfartsselskap -DNL, named "Nordfugl". From 1948 LN-IAF was operated by SAS, repainted in their colours and renamed "Fridtjof Viking". To Linjeflyg as SE-CFP 13 August 1957. Later 79006 in the Swedish Air Force. Restored as SE-CFP for Flygande Veteraner in 1984 and repainted to SAS colours. The DC-3 was repainted in a mix of the 1948 livery with the font used on "Scandinavian Airlines System" that was not introduced in 1957, the same year she left SAS.

Built 1971, ex AP-AWK, F-BTOS and SE-GRI. Registered LN-FAL on 21 April 1987 to Coast Aero Center. 21 October 1988 transferred to Coast Air and given the name "Valdresflya". 28 July 1994 sold as C-GNTH, 1998 N321EA, 2007 C-FPNZ, 2008 PK-BRS and 2022 C-GXDB. Seen lifting after take-off rwy 36 on schedule back to Karmøy, the first day of Sola Air Show 1987, when most civilian schedules went as normal.

My first photo of this Heron belonging to the Sola A.ir Museum. Built 1953, ex PK-GHB and G-AOXL. Imported by Fjellfly as LN-BFY February 10th 1972, but did not get Certificate of Air Worthiness. Stored at Skien until taken over by Sola Air Museum in 1984 and restored with parts after LN-BFX, in May 1987 painted as the first BU Heron with reg LN-PSG (which was a Heron !B from 1952 with serial 14002).

One of my first photos the first day of the Sola Air Show. Two former Royal Norwegian Air Force Fighters hvae been placed oustide for people to watch our military history. Left F-86K Sabre, marked ZK-L and right a T-33 marked DP-X .

Built 1977, ex N122B, N525BC, N625BC and SE-IUZ. Registered LN-FKF to Fonnafly April 4th 1987. In 1990 transferred to Mørefly, and from April 27th 1992 for Norsk Luftambulanse until sold November 17th 1994. Later in 1995 HK-3995X Brand new with Fonnafly when photograped at the first day of Sola Air Show 1987.