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ECT 2/2 "Côte d'or" the Mirage training unit started flying the twin-seat Mirage IIIB in July 1962. On 23 March 1972 the BE model was added on strength. The two-seaters were withdrawn from use on 20 June 1986 and replaced by Mirage 2000B and C. Also used for training purposes a couple Mirage IIIR’s ...

1. Alpha Jet E43/2-EI wears the markings of SPA 12 "Cigogne" on the tail. This escadille was added to EC 1/2 on 9 September 1994. 2. SPA 103 "Cigogne d'argent de Fonck" adorns the tail of Mirage 2000C 19/2-EA seen visiting Twenthe on 22 August 1995. 3. Mirage 2000B 517/2-EB in November 1990. 4. Mira...

La 2ème Escadre de Chasse is one of the oldest units in the French Air Force. Therefor I thought it would be nice to show you guys the variety of slides I do have of this unit in my collection. I’ve choosen to spand the Dijon period only as for most of us this base was synonyme with EC2. It is not m...

Thanks for the nice words Gerard and Erwin and good to sse that Gerrit and Rob were pitching in.
In the second half of the seventies the Saudi ones were loosing there shiny metal lower fuselage for a painted one.

5. Sole Mexican Air Force JetStar 8 JS-10201 was later re-serialed as 3908. 6. Royal Saudi Air Force 101 was one of three in use. 7. Not military but 7T-VHP JetStar II was in use by Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Government.

Produced in the early sixties the L.1329 JetStar was one of the first dedicated bussiness jets. Although I do not collect anything of the US forces I hope that will be compensated with the ones presented here from my collection in alphabetcial order of country. 1. Four L.1329 JetStar 6 were flown by...

5. AT-16D Texan 772. 6. Junckers Ju W43hi 407. 7. P-47D Thunderbolt FAC-861. 8. P-80C Shooting Star FAC-2061.

1. While scanning Colombian Air Force DC-4-1009 FAC-690 I noticed a musem aircraft in the background. About the same time I read the following on the LAAHS website: The Colombian Air Force -FAC- announced the construction of the new Aerospace Museum, which will be built right across the Jaime Duque...

Thanks for the nice words guys. Here is the bonus.

1. CL.13 Sabre as gate guard. 2. T-33A 16573/5-573 belonged to the base flight. 3. T-33A 14155/5-155. 4. Two SAR UH-1H Hueys were on duty. 5. Visiting C-47 was 6073/12-073. 6. I have no idea why 7nci AJU T-33A 54961/7-961 was at Merzifon.

In May 1990 I was able to visit Merzifon air base through a contact in the Turkish Air Force. Home of the 5nci Ana Jet Us it was flying the Northrop F-5A and B in those days. 1. Ex Royal Norwegian Air Force F-5A 575/8-575 was still in its original colours. 2. F-5A 21249/5-249 was on alert with live ...

Some more pics on:
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Might be of use.

As it is quite a long drive from Buenos Aires to Reconquista I was fortunate enough to get a lift on board C-130B TC-60. It was (and still is) hard to spot the serials of most aircraft as they only painted the last two digits on the nose wheel door. Two MS-760 Paris on the static, this E-224 (and E-...

A small open day was held at this Northern Argentinian base on 19 October 1996. This base, home to the III Brigada Aérea houses 2 squadrons in the Grupo Aéreo 3 de Ataque which operates the indigenous FMA IA-58A Pucara. IA-58A A-584 had a kill mark painted under the cockpit for the downing of a Brit...