A nice picture of a Hägglund & Söner-built Sk 25 Bestmann on skies. 25023 was built in 1944 and used by the Swedish AF Central Flying School F 5 with tailcode 223. Transfered to F 21 in Luleå in early 1947 and then on to F 1 Wing a year later. SOC in 1954 and sold to Svensk Flygtjänst, but was scrapped for spares.

Delivered to the RAF as WJ945 in 1953. Sold as G-BEDV in 1976 and maintained in airworthy condition. CofA expired in 1987 and preserved at Duxford. Cancelled from the register in 1989. Moved to the Cornwall Aviation Heritage Cenre at Newquay in 2011. Its future is uncertain following the forced closure by Cornwall council.

In late 1980, five stretched C-130H-30's were delivered to the TNI-AU (A-1317 through A-1321). Then in May of 1982, the airframe pictured here became the TNI-AU's sixth C-130H-30. It too got serial A-1321(2.), while the original "A-1321" (c/n 4870) became A-1341 to serve with VIP squadron 17 at Halim. All six C-130H-30 remain in service at the time of upload, while two of the six "civilian" L-100-30's transferred from Merpati and Pelita to the TNI-AU in the late 1990's were lost in accidents. A-1321 is seen here in the two tone brown camo worn by most indonesian C-130's in the early 2000's.

At this time it was NAS Miramar.

Assigned to the Letalska Šola (LETS). The Jet Ranger is former Bell Helicopter Textron test registration N7026Z, and was delivered to Slovenia in April 2008. In contrast with other Slovenian 206s, this one carries a serial with H1-* while the other 206s are S5-* serialled.

NZ1821 with the white fern roundel. It was short-lived and replaced with a silver fern frond because the silver fern is a symbol of New Zealand. The contrast between the red and silver was poor and eventually the RNZAF bowed to the inevitable and adopted the globally recognised symbol of NZ, the kiwi, for its roundels. There had been resistance to the kiwi on account of it being a flightless bird. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

F-5F with Tactical Air completing it's afternoon sortie

NZ1821 in a special livery when used as VIP aircraft. Black and white photos show this aircraft had the silver fern roundel used from 1958 to 1970 when the kiwi was adopted. NZ1821 was sold as ZK-UDO in 1977. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

NZ1921 seen in its original bare metal finish. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Front section only. In front of the aircraft is the camera pack, that was removed from the aircraft after a mission and replaced with a fresh one thus shortening the turnround.

One of a pair that had just arrived for the event. This one would be put on static display. Zimbabwe's K-8s are operated by 2 Squadron at Gweru-Thornhill.

25 years Midnight Hawks.