Paris Air show Le Bourget 1991

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).

Again the weather this year wasn't the best you can ask for, but we kept it dry. The United States presented the F117 Nighthawk, and showed a lot of material used in the 'Gulf conflict' . Russia selected some interesting visitors for Paris, like the MiG-31.

This made Paris Le Bourget 1991 a very interesting salon d'air!

This is what we saw in 1991

Sepecat Jaguar A, 148/11-YD.

In desert colors from Armée del'Air France.

Panavia Tornado, MM7050.

British Tornado also back from the Gulf.

LB# 299

Grumman A-6E Intruder, 155636/AE-501.

US Navy, VA-176 "Thunderbolts"  

Grumman F-14A 'Tomcat', 161896/AE-100.

US Navy, VF-11 "Red Rippers".

MCD Douglas AV-8B Harrier II, 16363/WH-11.

US Marines, VMA-542.

Lockheed F-117A Night Hawk, 85-0830/TR.

US Airforce 37th TFW.

MCD Douglas F-15C Eagle, 80-0003/BT.

US Airforce, 22nd TFW/53rd TFS.

MCD Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle, 89-0504/SJ.

US Airforce 4th Wing.

Soko G-4 Super Galeb, 23686.

Yugoslavian Air Force.

A month after the show, the war in Yugoslavia begins.

LB# 405

Mikoyan MiG-31 "Foxhound".

Russian Air Force.

LB# 374

Kamov Ka-32, CCCP-31000.

Aeroflot.

LB# 375

Yakolev Yak-42F, CCCP-42644.

Aeroflot, special equipped aircraft for search and

rescue in polar conditions

LB# 383

Antonov An-74T, CCCP-74010.

Aeroflot colors, Antonov Design Bureau.

LB# 373

Eurocopter Tigre, F-ZWWW.

Eurocopter, prototype first flight April 27th 1991.

LB# H200

Aeritalia AMX-T, MM55024.

Aeritalia.

LB# 304

Sikorsky S-76 Fantail, N3124G.

United Technologies.

LB# H88

Aermacchi MB339C, NZ6463. (I-RAIB)

Royal New Zealand Air Force colors.

LB# 293

Antonov An-28, SP-DDB.

Sprint Airlines, Poland.

LB# 414

WZL W-3A Sokol, SP-SUD.

PZL Poland.

LB# H310

Sukhoi Su-29, Su-29

Aviaexport. Aerobatics aircraft.

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1991.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.