Marked 12 AF, as 12th Air Force

Departing Spang just in the final part of the early morning fog

Built by Fokker with c/n 10503, this F-104G was delivered to the Koninklijke Luchtmacht on 14 May 1963. It was assigned to 306sq and after a long career with several squadron owners, the F-104 was withdrawn from use on 11 October 1984. After a storage period at Ypenburg it was preserved at the Air Force instruction school (LIMOS) at Nijmegen. When the LIMOS was closed at that location it was stored again at Woensdrecht air base and it eventually appeared in a fine original air defense grey colour from May 1996 onwards at the Dutch military radar station Nieuw-Milligen in 322/323 markings.

Together with T-054 at the military platform of Eindhoven.

A nice visitor to Rotterdam-The Hague airport today, on 15 June 2021, this Gruppo Esplorazione Aeromarittima (GEA, Italian Customs Police) arrived late afternoon. The aircraft is based at Pratica di Mare (Italy) and dropped some people at the Dutch airport.

A VIP jet with a lot of owners : Manufacturer registration F-WWVQ with Dassault Aviation (Oct00) and then HZ-KSDA NetJets Middle East (Oct00), F-ORAX National Air Services (Feb04), F-ORAX Dassault Aviation (Mar04), F-GVDA Dassault Aviation (Jun04) but not taken up, VP-BNT Corporate Jet (Jul04), N78NT Wells Fargo Bank (Nov06), M-TANA Corporate Jet S.A.L. (Jun11), OD-ONE FlyExec Ltd. (Jun12), F-HFLX Dassault Aviation (Oct14), M-SFOZ Executive Aircraft Services (Apr15), M-SFOZ Sky Lounge Services SAL (Jul16), M-SFOZ District One Ltd. (Sep19) and last reported as M-ZLAM District One Ltd. (Sep19)

Disguised as SyrianAir, this Falcon 20F of the Syrian Government and assigned to 575sq (according to the yellow badge with the Syrian flag just behind the cockpit) based at Damascus International. The Falcon was once F-WMKJ (October 1975) before it was sold to Syria. The aircraft is seen here at Le Bourget at the platform of Falcon Services where it arrived for maintenance. The aircraft was flown back late 2004.

Registered to Bremont Watch Company Ltd. as F-BXCP on 14 May 2007.

A Feb'92 built Mi-8, once registered CCCP-27029 with Liana. The Mi-8 became ER-MHK with Scorpion Air of Bulgaria on 17 Apr'02 and this registration was cancelled on 17 Sep'02. The Moldovan AF took the helo on strength as "01" black from 30 Sep'02. It was noticed as such during this Partnership for Peace ex. It became again ER-MHK, this time with the UN from Feb'03. It carried a full white UN c/s with 'UNHAS' at Kabul. It returned to Moldova in Jan'04 and poss became "01" black again and ER-MHK again from 02 Jul'04. From 16 May'05 it was sold as UR-CIN and... ER-MHK Aerop. Marcul in Aug'13.