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Good afternoon, The yearly Formula 1 races at the Nürburgring circuit were held Sunday the 7th of July. As usual West of the village of Meuspath the so callec "Krebsberg" was turned into a temporary heliport. All serials/types noted are straight from the notebook, and were seen between 11AM and 2.15...

Good afternoon, Visited the nice airfield of Hangelar Monday the 15th of July, from 12.45 untill 16.30 hour. Spotting was done from outside, mostly from the nice terrace at the ADAC building. All serials straight from the notebook, BTW. D-HSNS EC120 Bundepolizei. flying (endlessly.....) D-HARE EC120...

Good afternoon, Monday the 15th between 17.45 and 21.20 hr some aircraft were noted, straight from the notebook: unknown IL76TD-90 Silk Airways (at the military apron, anyone for the ID of this one ?) N581UP B747 UPS N277UP MD11 UPS N257UP MD11 UPS N254UP MD11 UPS one more was present G-GSSE B747 Bi...

Good afternoon, Noted Thursday morning, the 11th of July (08.20/12.00) 44+69 JBG33 grey T09.55 L11.25 45+94 JBG33 green T09.55 L11.25 45+17 JBG33 grey T10.05 L11.40 45+57 JBG33 grey T10.05 L11.40 A fifth one left at 09.45hr, but didn't return. An unknown HEER Bo105 arrived at 10.25, and departed 11....

Good afternoon, Monday the 15th Köln-Bonn airport was visited. Some W&R aircraft were noted: 40+43 Alfa Jet. This one is still guarding the military (main) gate (D-EKQA/AS+473) P149D. All red whithout registration. At the fire brigade station , visible from the perimeter road at the north side At th...

Good morning, Noted Monday the 12th of July between 17.45 and 21.20 hr: (10+21) A310 10+23 A310 10+24 A310 10+25 A310 10+27 A310 14+02 Global 5000 14+03 Global 5000 16+02 A340 At the miltary apron was also a IL76TD-90 of Silk Airways. Anyone for the serial of this one ? regards, Remco

Goodmorning, Noted Monday the 12th of July at a very quiet Nörvenich (10.10/12.05): 30+75 EF2000 JBG31 T10.05 L11.13 30+79 EF2000 JBG31 T10.05 L11.13 45+.. Troando IDS JBG33. The Tonka left 11.55hr, and was a leftover from the family day held Friday the 12th. As it was a green one it was very hard t...

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regards,
Remco

Good morning, Paid a short visit to this airfield yesterdag evening, some interesting planes noted were: 84+73 CH-53G MTHR15 PH-1163 Slingsby T31B motor Cadet III (ex WT868) PH-1121 Slingsby T31B motor Cadet III (ex WT917) D-EDUR SF260A (full fake BLu c/s as "ST26") OE-AXX Boeing Stearman N2S-3 Stea...

Good evening, To answer my previous posted questions: The two unknown Apaches might very well be ZJ188 and ZJ299, serials taken from a 25-04 report. Code D, being a Sea King, belongs to the ZA299. Just for the record: the helicopters (including French and Dutch ones the week earlier) were present to...

Carlisle airport, 1st of May question Good morning Last Wednesday (the 1st of May) we visited Carlisle Airport to grab the Solway Aviation Museum aircraft. To our big surprise an exercise was taking place, we saw: ZJ205 Apache AH1 unknown Apache AH1 unknown Apache AH1 ZA297/W Sea King HC4+ unknown/D...

I remember standing (at Deelen 1998) approximately 1 meter from the tail of the Cobra, and still not able to read the serial !
Rows of Cobra's at Mainz-Finthen, completely unreadable. But still I've got this superb view in my mind !

Good afternoon,

The Chievres Air Base Museum (open each Sunday 14.00/17.00, 1st of April untill the 30th of September)
mentions (and shows a picture) of a C-119 Flying Boxcar fuselage.
Haven't seen this one in any publication so far, does anybody knows it's ID ?

regards,
Remco

Hi Arnold

Thanks for the quick response ! I assume you also grabbed the Mirage 5 at Persan-Beaumont ?

regards,
Remco

Good morning, At the Northern outskirts of Paris the AdlA HQ used to be at BA921 Taverny. Although the base closed 05-07-2011, the military area is still in use by "COFAS". Does anybody know if Mirage 3C "25/2-EA" (real ID 64) still guards the main gate ? EuroDEmobbed has a l/n date of December 2011...