Mombasa Moi Airbase 5-7-2010 Home of the Tiger II

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Mombasa Moi Airbase 5-7-2010 Home of the Tiger II

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While we are still sorting out our RIAT pics...

During landing at Moi International Airport some nice planes were caught the corner of my eye. During taxiing to the gate I had to put them on record through the window of course. What a beauties.. They were there also on the return leg, but from the public area there are no photo opportunities to the military ramp.
(Also taking pics is forbidden there, told by a local after taking some sunsetshots from the airport balcony..)
Only plane reasonable for pics at our stopover Hurghada, no MiGs outside as well, one Chinook on the runway end (flew right over it)
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Mombasa military ramp
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Out of a row of 5 present:
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Enjoy, comments are welcome and most appreciated.
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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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Very exotic! Any idea if the F-5s were based at Mombasa, or just there for deployment? I thought Laikipia was the only KAF fighter base..
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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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Sweet snaps :respect:

Did you manage to ID any og the fighters from the photos?
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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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Thanks for your replies, I posted the log here:
http://www.scramble.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65147
Moi is an active base at least since 2006, I don't know if the fighters are based there, they were there at least for the week I was there.
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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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Very interestin pics of rarely seen aircraft!
Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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Cool pics.

Maybe you should consider changing the title: the F-5E/F is called Tiger II, not Freedom Fighter (only the F-5A/B).
Not an inappropriate name for the location either :lol:
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Re: Mombasa Moi IAP 5-7-2010 Home of the Freedom Fighter

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DJdeRidder wrote:Very exotic! Any idea if the F-5s were based at Mombasa, or just there for deployment? I thought Laikipia was the only KAF fighter base..
Not sure about that. But I was there a long time ago (in 1991) and even at that time the base was also full of operational F-5's.
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