Between March 1984 and 2008, this SABCA built airframe flew with the Belgian AF as FA-76 (US FY serial 80-3567). Originally delivered to Belgium as a Block 15 aircraft, it was eventually upgraded to Block 20 MLU standard. A total of 25 ex Belgian AF F-16A/B's found their way to Jordan under the "Peace Falcon III & V" Programe, among them "148" in 2009. Note the blueish painted mid section of this bird, assigned to SQN 1 based at As Shaheed Muwaffaq al Salti Air Base.

This F-16B (US FY 81-0936) has been delivered to the Pakistan AF under the FMS program "Peace Gate II". The 1st two digits of the Pakistani serial indicate the year it was delivered (1984), while the 6XX number were assigned to the dual seater (single seaters have 7XX numbers). Originally a Block 15 aircraft, it was later upgraded to Block 20 status. Note the kill mark in the form of an indian flag on the nose section of 84606, apparently being the aircraft which shot down an IAF MiG-21 Bison (Fishbed) on February 27, 2019.

R10-002 supported the six PAF F-16A/B's participating in exercise Anatolian Eagle 2022. Pakistan operates four IL-78MP in the MRTT version. Based at Nur Khan (OPRN) / Islamabad International Airport and operated by Squadron 10, they are serialled R09-001, R10-002, R11-003 and R11-004. When operating as tanker, they carry a total of three refueling pods, one under each wing and the 3rd on the rear left side of the fuselage, unfortunately not visible on this picture. R11-003 was upgraded in Ukraine and re-delivered to the PAF in early February 2022, just prior to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Between May 1974 and August 1981, seventeen standard C-130H's were delivered to the Air Force of Morocco, three of which have since been lost in accidents. In addition, two KC-130H tankers joined the fleet in late 1981. Most moroccan Hercules have initially carried the c/n as serial, before getting civilian registrations in the CNA-O.. range, which were later slightly changed to CN-AO.. The airframe seen here taking off in beautiful atumn light had picked up civil servants who conducted emergency response training in Switzerland. It was previously CNA-ON, but never carried the c/n 4876.

This 2017 built EC145 still has the 4-bladed Main Rotor but will eventually be retrofitted with a new 5-Blade system. It is only temporary based at this heliport located to the new Schwarzwald-Baar medical clinic, covering for D-HDST. The clinic and the heliport were both built new in 2013 and are located at an altitude of 2419 ft / 750m, making it the highest rescue helicopter base in Germany.

The DRF base located just next to the medical clinic in Friedrichshafen is a so called RTH (Rettungshubschrauber) base and operates an EC135/H135. The heli is on daily stand-by between 7am and sunset. Even though no night flying nor rescue hoisting is done from this base, this H135 is still called to assist in more than 1000 medical emergencies anually. D-HRTA was built in 2017, carrying the appropriate c/n 2017.

Under a Foreign Military Sales FMS program named "Peace Carvin V", Singapore ordered 12 F-15 Strike Eagle in 2005 and then again 12 in 2007. As from June 2010, most of those 24 airframes were delivered to 149 Squadron "Steadfast" based at Paya Lebar. However, at least three F-15SG's remained in the US and were assigned to the 366FW / 428FS based at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho, tasked with training the Republic of Singapore AF Strike Eagle crews. 8302 carried US FY 05-0002 and shows off it's big air brake during Cope Tiger 2012, the first international exercise the F-15SG's were sent to.

With less than 300 units built by CASA (now Airbus Military) and Nurtanio/IPTN since 1986, the CN-235 is not the most successful aircraft, but nevertheless a rather interesting one, as it is operated in small numbers by many Air Arms around the world. The Indonesian AF has so far aquired twelve CN-235's, with A-2302 being the 2nd one (built in 1992). In June 2019, this airframe has been transferred to the newly established Skadron Udara 27 and based on the island of Biak (Papua province). It has since also received the typical glossy three tone camo livery know from the TNI-AU's C-130 fleet.

Since the introduction of Jet Airliners in the late 1950's, EL AL (founded in 1949) has almost entirely operated Boeing aircraft. Gone are they days of variety, and today the airline only operates B737-800/-900 on the short and medium flights plus B777-200 and B787 Dreamliners on longhaul routes. 4X-EKL was manufactured in June of 2009 and is one of 16 B737-800 on strength at the time of upload.

Manufactured in 2000, this helicopter has always been registered I-HBEP and first belonged to italian operator Helica, before it joined the small fleet of Heli Mont Blanc in 2019. Based at Aosta airport, Heli Mont Blanc offers aerial work to the local community, plus taxi and scenic flights for tourists. It also operates a Robinson R44 for basic and advanced training.

In 1985, STAR Flight (commonly known as Travis County STAR Flight) began operating as a joint venture program of Travis County, the City of Austin and the Brackenridge Hospital. Having started simple with a Bell 206 Jet Ranger and later a Bell 206L3 Long Ranger, it received larger and more complex Bell 412EP's as from 1990. Those were eventually replaced by EC135 and EC145 helicopters and in 2019, Travis County STAR Flight became the first ambulance service AW169 opertor in the US, introducing three units (N307TC, N308TC and N309TC).

Built in 2007, this airframe previously carried test registration F-WQDB, then served in Switzerland with Air Grischa and Swiss Helicopter as HB-ZIY till June of 2013. It then went to Portugal as CS-HIF with EverJets before ending up with famous austrian operator Wucher. Seen here on a cold winter day at Wucher's main base in Ludesch.

The Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (locally known as Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia) became an Agusta customer in 2003, when it received two A109E Power (9M-BOA and 9M-BOB). Then in 2010, the service introduced two AW139, the 1st of which can be seen here taxing towards the Agusta hangar at Subang (without the usually mounted rescue hoist). The 2nd AW139 carries registration 9M-BOD. Finally in 2018, two larger AW189 helicopters were purchased as 9M-BOE and 9M-BOF.

Travira Air is a Jakarta based Charter Airline, operating both rotary and fixed wing aircraft. It's S-76, Bell 412 and AW139 helicopters are contracted to the oil and gas industry out of Balikpapan (East Kalimantan), while the ATR-42/72, Beech 1900 and Cessna 208 aircraft can be seen throughout Indonesia. The S-76 pictured here was sold to South Korea where it became HL9636. Registration PK-TVP has been re-assigned to a Viking DHC-6-400 Twin Otter, which was delivered new to Travira Air in late 2021.

Climbing out of Ovda AB for another training sortie, this F-15C Baz was delivered to Israel under the Peace Fox III FMS program. It carried US FY # 83-0060 and is assigned to 106 SQN "Spearhead" based in Tel Nof. The grey F-15's of 106 & 133 SQN each carry an individual a/c name painted on the nose section, this one is called "Tzedek" in hebrew, meaning "Jupiter". It is seen here "armed" with a blue Python 3 practice missile under the wing and an IAI/ELTA EL/L-8222 electronic countermeasure pod on the LH forward station.

Ulrichen was - with 1350m/AMSL - the highest active Air Base in Switzerland, being in operation between 1942 and 1999. After it's closure, it was a few times used by AgustaWestland for high altitude trials of various helicopter prototypes. Such was the case in September of 2009, when the 2nd prototype of the VTOL / Tilt Rotor AW-609 was based there for a week to conduct test flights. Seen here just about to take-off. Unfortunately, this airframe crashed in northern Italy on October 30, 2015 during high speed trials, with loss of both test pilots.

This 2002 built EC145 joined the REGA fleet as 1st of it's kind in January 2003. Four more were introduced that same year, while a 6th heli was purchased in late 2008. They operated out of the "lowland" bases Lausanne, Berne, Basle, Zurich and St Gallen. In 2019, all six were sold to the Royal Moroccan Gendarmerie (Al-Darak al-Malikiy) and ferry flown to Morocco, still wearing the basic REGA colors but already registered in the CN-BZ.. range. HB-ZRA was the last delivered to Morocco and became CN-BZU in August 2020.

EAT Leipzig officially started operations at Leipzig/Halle Airport in spring of 2008. It is an aircraft maintenance center as well as a registered cargo airline, operating on behalf of the DHL Group. As such, it currently operates some 20 A300-600 Freighters, among them this former Japan Airlines airframe (built in December 1992, ex JA8562) seen here in front of Mount Ymittos. D-AEAL got converted from Pax to Cargo standard in 2010/2011 (while temporary carrying registration N4679) and joined the EAT fleet in March 2012. EAT also operates a few A330 and B757-200 freighters.

Seen here departing Andravida AB is one of some 20 Avantis used by the four branches of the Italian Armed forces since 1994. This particular airframe was manufactured in 2008 and was first operated by the Department of Civil Protection ("Dipartimento Protezione Civile") as I-DPCL, before being intergrated into the Italian AF fleet in June 2011. It is based at Practica di Mare. In early 2020, the Italian MoD announced an order for additional nine new Avantis in the version Evo+, plus the upgrade of eleven existing airframes to Evo+ configuration.

Before being converted to a freighter in January of 2019, this 2002 built B737-800 flew for American Trans Air and ATA Airlines as N329TZ. Between May 2006 and August 2018, China Southern Airlines operated it as B-5127. After the conversion, it first became G-NPTD, finally joining West Atlantic in October of 2020. Arriving here from Paris CDG, lining up for a landing on ATH's RWY03L.