Welcome visit to Curacao of this US Navy C-40A in support of US Navy counterdrugs operations from Hato.

Line-up of twelve K-8Ws and eight F-16s of the Venezuelan air force for this commemoration.

virtually unmarked, but on the left side the East German serial is vaguely visible. The right side sports the Luftwaffe serial 2549.

Delivered on 14 November 2012, just ten days before this picture was taken, 2803 was one of the first pair delivered, bought to augment Grupo 6' fleet of C-130H Hercules. Traces of white plastic worn on its delivery flight can still be seen on top of the wings and near the rudder.

Built as a civil aircraft and registered NC8943H, it was one of 83 of the type bought from North American by the USAAF for use as liaison and staff transport aircraft and designated L-17A, and in this case allotted the serial 47-1312. It was later fitted with new brakes and fuel tanks by Schweizer Aircraft Corporation and re designated L-17C. Later civilianised as N6724C it had a number of accidents, and was most recently restored by lately deceased Milwaukee Police Sgt. Burton K Ottow whose name it still wears. It was being offered for sale at Oshkosh with the proceeds going to his estate.

Fresno based F-16C arriving for the 2004 Miramar show