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).

The Second time we traveled to Paris was in 1987. Bad weather (gray and wet..) made it a not such a good year to take photographs, but that couldn't spoil the fun.

Again Le Bourget Air show had some good surprises for us. Lets take  a look at what we found in June 1987.

244 Aerospatiale SA365F Dauphin 2,

Irish Air Corps, First Support Wing (SAR/Util)

A23-001 Pilatus PC-9,

Royal Australian Air Force, Training school

LB#. 01

CCCP-28808 Antonov An-28 'Cash',

Aeroflot. LB#. 322

CCCP-72003 Antonov An-74'Cooler',

Aeroflot/Soviet Air Force. LB#. 324

ECT-101/126 CASA/Nurtania CN-235,

Royal Saudi Air Force, 4 Sqn. Jeddah AFB

LB#. 66

FT-7 Jian FT-7 GAIGC, Jian Industries, China.

The Chinese version of the MiG-21 Fishbed

has got a Ferranti radar and a Martin Baker

Ejection Seat.

G-LYNX Westland Lynx AH 1,

World Speed Record Lynx, 400,87 Km/h 

Aug. 1986.

I-RAIK Aeritalia G-222,

LB#. 239

Dassault Mirage 50M,

Mirage V with a Canard wing and extra 

electronics.

N7001 Lockheed L.18 Lodestar,

Howard Hughes round the world trip (1938) redone with this Lodestar.

Nanchang A-5C Fantan,

Nanchang Aircraft Company China.

The A-5C is based on the Blue prints of the Russian MiG-19

OO-SQA Promavia F.1300 NGT Jet Squalus,

The First flight of the prototype I-SQAL was at the Italian

AFB Bergamo April 30th 1987. The Jet Squalus

is a Belgium product.

Dassault Rafale A,

The Rafale A is a pre-prototype. Its is bigger than the full

scale Rafale B, C and M prototypes, and production 

airframes. First flight of the Rafale A was July 4th 1986.

ZF534 British Aerospace EAP,

EAP (Experimental Aircraft Program) Technology

demonstrator for the Euro fighter program. First flight Aug. 8th 1986.

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1987.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.