Dutch solo demo Viper is getting ready for another splendid display.

FMS serial 78-0241 was a Fokker built (c/n L-059) Block 10. Delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 23 May 1981 and assigned to 322 Squadron at Leeuwarden. It is here seen at the pedestrian crossing :-) of Soesterberg, returning home. The Fighting Falcon later flew with 315 sqn (from Mar'94), 311 sqn (Dec'95), 312 sqn (Jul'00), and was stored at Soesterberg in 2001 (with the tail of J-232 and fake J-315 titels). In Jan'04 it was moved to the ROC school in Tilburg, still with fake J-315 serial. From Mar'19 it is used by the fire department at Eindhoven AB

low pass over the runway

J-214, equipped with a target towing pod underneath its left wing. The F-16A carries FMS serial 78-0214 and was Fokker built (c/n L-004). It was delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 5 Sep'79. It was first temporarely assigned to the multinational MOT&E team, but later assigned to the F-16 Transitie en Conversie Afdeling (TCA, Transition and Conversion Unit) at Leeuwarden, then swapped between 315sq, 323sq, 312sq and 311sq before it was stored at Woensdrechts air base in July 1996. It was scrapped on 1 October 1998.

Picture was taken by Marinus Dirk Tabak. Slide is part of my private collection.

First flown as PH-FBT on 26 Aug'60, delivered to 334sq of the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 30 Sep'60. The small transporter operated from homebase Soesterberg up to 31 Jul'96, when it was withdrawn from service and stored at Woensdrecht air base (the Netherlands). The F27 was sold on 18 Dec'97 to Valitrade. It became ZS-OEI with Luft Afrique in Feb'98 and became 5Y-BRN with Air Express in Nov'03. Later it flew with that registration with Safe Air from 2009. Safe Air was not so safe as the F27 crashed in poor visibility weather at Bossaso (Somalia) on 4 Mar'10.