On 10th November 2023, the Lockheed-Martin company announced completion of final assembly of the first F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft for Luchtcomponent / Composante air, the air arm of the Belgian Armed Forces (BAF). The […]
At the beginning of March, we have issued our first article about the air show news and updates for the 2023 season – so it is time to continue that series with further information about […]
Westland Sea King Mk.48 (c/n WA832, RS-02 of the Belgian Air Component), flying display at Sanicole International Airshow, September 2015. In the mid-1970s, Belgian government decided to purchase five Sea King helicopters to replace Sikorsky […]
This year´s air show season is already in full swing, so it is time to provide you even more news and announcements in our fifth article of the series, fully focused on the 43rd edition […]
We are only two months away from the Belgian aviation weekend consisting of the 42nd edition of International Sanicole Airshow and spotter day at Kleine-Brogel air base. And, as the date draws near, organizers of […]
NATO announced an aircraft acquiring programme, worth over 550 million USD. On 23rd April 1953, during a press conference held at Palais de Chaillot, the Secretary General of NATO, Lord Ismay (General Hastings Lionel ´Pug´ […]
After a one year gap caused by coronavirus outbreak, the Sanicole International Airshow is going to return in September 2021, with the 42nd edition of the show. And, certainly, the two other related events – […]
Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, ´FU-66 / RA-T´, formerly Belgian Air Force, on display at the Kleine-Brogel air base, Belgium, September 2017. Thunderstreak, a fighter-bomber designed between 1948 and 1950, was a swept-wing version of an early […]
Republic F-84E Thunderjet ´FS-17 / DMB´ (c/n 2335-1366), formerly Belgian Air Force, on display at the Kleine-Brogel air base, Belgium, September 2017. Thunderjet was born in 1944, when the works on a turbojet-powered successor for […]
Lockheed C-130H Hercules ´CH-10´, 15th Air Transport Wing of Belgian Air Component, is taking-off from Kleine-Brogel air base, September 2017. Since its maiden flight on 23rd August 1954, the C-130 Hercules quickly gained the reputation […]
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