Paris Air show Le Bourget.

The Le Bourget Air salon is probably the most exciting show to visit every other year to find and see the latest developments in aviation. 

We, the people behind Zijde Aviation Photo Publishing (as this is our full name) started visiting the Le Bourget air show in 1985. That means that this year, Le Bourget 2001 will be our 9th  visit to this grand show that hosts all the great manufacturers of all that has anything to do with aviation, reason enough we thought to display some of the photo’s we took over the last 8 shows (15 years).

We Start in 1985, 15 years younger, we took off to Paris to see the Le Bourget Air show for the first time. As you will see our photo-equipment was a bit cheaper, but we were very enthusiastic. Never the less, we hope the reader will understand that the quality of the photo's is getting better within the years, just like most people we got better thru the years... ;o)

LB #: 290

IAR-317 Air Fox, a conversion of the Alouette III helicopter to a light

attack helicopter (Prototype)   

Carrousel, Aerospatiale SA330 Puma.

ER 1/60 Villacoublay-Velizy. VIP-Transport President Mitterand.

LB #:    318

CCCP-82002. Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Condor)  c/n.

Aerophlot. This is the first production frame, it crashed October 13th 1992.

LB #:    13

D-ICDS. Dornier CD01A Sea star.

 Another prototype that crashed. (July 24th 1985).

F-BPPA/2. Boeing AS201 Super Guppy, Airbus Sky link/Aeromaritime

parked in front of hangar.

LB #:    92

F-WEGA. Aerospatiale Aeritalia ATR 42

LB #:    89

F-WZLR. Airbus A300-600 (first flight July 8th 1983)

LB #:    21

F-ZBAR/21. Canadair CL-215. Securite Civile

A well known guest at Le Bourget.

LB #:    126

F-ZKFZ. Aerospatiale TB 30 Epsilon

trainer / light attack.

LB #:    197

G-SSHH. British Aerospace 146-100. 2nd prototype.

LB #:    261

MMX595. Aeritalia Aeromachi Embraer AMX NC.002

This was the second prototype the first flight was November 19th 1984.

The first AMX prototype crashed June 1, 1984.

LB #:    38

PT-ZBB. Embraer Emb-120 Brasilia

(today's reg. N210AS Atlantic Southeast Airlines.)

LB #:    ?

SP-PCC. PZL-130 Orlik. (prototype)

LB #:    285

YR-ICA. IAR-831 Pelican.

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1987.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.