On 29th March 2024, Koninklijke Luchtmacht (the Royal Netherlands Air Force – RNLAF) officially informed about the end of the Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) duties for the country´s F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft. In the […]
Sud Aviation/Aérospatiale SA-316B Alouette III (c/n 1247, A-274 of the Royal Netherlands Air Force), flying display during Air Force Days 2013 (Luchtmachtdagen 2013), Volkel air base, June 2013. On 28th February 1959, prototype of Alouette […]
In the middle of November 2022, the Boeing company delivered the twentieth CH-47F Chinook transport helicopter to the Royal Netherlands Air Force. This marked the completion of the country´s latest fleet upgrade. The CH-47F is […]
On 28th March 2022, another edition of Frisian Flag exercise was officially launched. The training, organized and led by the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF), involves mostly fighter aircraft and is considered one of the […]
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´ […]
Hawker Hunter T.8C (G-BWGL / N-321), c/n 41H/695946, owned by the Dutch Hawker Hunter Foundation and exhibited at static display during the 100th Anniversary of German Naval Aviation event, Nordholz, August 2013. Between 1955 and […]
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