The Dutch 323sq is named "Diana", so the Tiger pilot choose the wrong visor cover. J-256 carries FMS serial 78-0256 and is a Fokker built (line number L-091) F-16A Block 10C. It was delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force) on 16 Apr'82. It was withdrawn from use at Volkel in Feb'01 after it experienced a nosewheel collaps during taxiing out of a dispersal in Dec'00. It was then stored at Volkel, to Soesterberg in Nov'01, moved to the Technical University in Delft on 22 Apr'08 and returned to Volkel as an instructional airframe in Nov'11. Scrapped soon after.

Allocated USAF serial 78-0256. To Delft University for use as a ground trainer in 2008. Moved to Volkel in 2018 and scrapped.

Spare aircraft for the 1994 solo display. Photographer unknown

323 Squadron visiting F13 with the JA-37 Viggen, see elsewhere on this site.

Armed with AIM-9s and SUU-20s. The tail band reveals that this a Leeuwarden-based aircraft

Early morning shot of J-256. Note the Frisian Flag fin colors.

For the 1982 TAM Leeuwarden introduced the Frisian tail band. The The Hague General Staff disapproved this due to fear for an "flag incident" and other far-fetched reasons. By staff order the bands had to be removed (and reappeared in 1988).

This close one could get to the taxiway near the so called TCA line to make pictures.