40 years 306 Sqn.

The tail band colours are of the reserve airfield De Peel.

Photographer: Rainer Haufschild.

This recce F-16 was written off in August 1993.

J-065, leading a flightline of mixed Dutch and US Fighting Falcons. The dual seat aircraft, built by Fokker with FMS serial 86-0065 flew first on 7 November 1988 and was delivered to the KLu on 21 December 1988.

Built as a F-16A by Fokker (FMS serial 85-0145) and delivered to the KLu on 26 Apr'88. It served 315sq, 313sq, 314sq, was seen with the Leeuwarden squadron, then 311sq and 315sq, before it was modified to F-16AM in a Midlife Update in 1998. The F-16 was redelivered to 315sq in Sep'98. It then served 313sq and 322sq before its transfer to 306sq at Springfield in Jun'07 (seen in dec'09 here without ejection seat). It moved to the 148th FS at Tucson (AZ) in Dec'10. It returned to the Netherlands in Aug'12, was stored at Leeuwarden and was sold to Jordan as 248 with 2sq and delivered in Oct'17.

Built as a F-16A Block 15 Fighting Falcon by Fokker (FMS serial 87-0510) and delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht on 4 September 1989. Modified to F-16AM in 1999, served 313sq, 315sq, 323sq, 322sq, 312sq and was cflown over to 306sq, the Dutch F-16 training squadron, at Springfield in June 2007. Moved to Tucson in December 2010 where it started to serve the Dutch occupied 148th FS. Returned to Volkel to serve 312sq in September 2011, wihdrawn from use in March 2012 and stored at Volkel. It was sold to Jordan as 250 and delivered as such in February 2018.

Built by Fokker and delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht as F-16B on 8 December 1989 with FMS serial 87-0067. It served 313, 311, 312 and 623sq before it received a Mid Life Update in 1997. Redesignated F-16BM it continued with 322sq, 315sq and 313sq before it was delivered to 306sq at Springfield (Ohio) in November 2007. It was assigned to the Dutch F-16 training squadron up to December 2010 when it was transfered to Tucson (AZ) 148th FS. The F-16BM is still serving this US/ Dutch squadron.