Paris Air show Le Bourget 1993

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).

A very busy Le Bourget Air show this year, so much was there to be seen, we didn't know where to start...

Our Camera's were running warm.. (pity the sun wasn't) a great number of photo's came home with us. Let's see what they were....

Kamov Ka-50 Werewolf.

Kamov OKB.

LB# 020 + 021

Mill Mi-28 Havoc.

Russian Army.

LB# 042

Mill Mi-26TM, RA-06089.

Largest Helicopter in the world.

LB# H304 

Mikoyan MiG-29S Fulcrum.

Russian Airforce.

LB# 299

Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker.

Sukhoi OKB.

LB# 319

Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker.

Sukhoi OKB

LB# 321

Yak-3.

Yakolev Yak-3 Flying replica is build in corporation

with the Santa Monica Museum of flight.

Yakolev Yak-54.

Russian stunt plane.

LB# 310

Aviatika 900 Acrobat.

LB# 313

Antonov An-32 Fire killer, UR-48004.

LB# 302

Beriev Be-32, RA-67205.

Moscow Airways

LB# 308

Ilyushin IL-96M, RA-96000

Ilyushin OKB.

LB# 307

Valmet L-90TP Redigo, RG-7.

Finnish Air Force colors.

LB# 122

MCD Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, 164647/AJ-402.

US Navy, VFA-87.

Lockheed F-16C Fighting Falcon, 87-0281/SP.

US Air Force, 81st FS.

MCD Douglas AII-64A Apache, 88-0197.

US Army, PV257.

MCD Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle, 90-0251/LN.

US Air Force, 492nd FS.

Dassault Rafale C, C01.

Prototype, first flight May 19th 1991.

Dassault Mirage 2000N, 369/4-AS.

French Armée l'Air, EC1/4.

Dassault Mirage 2000-5, B01.

Dassault Mirage 5 MirSip, BA60.

Belgian Air Force Mirage System Improvement.

Dassault Mirage 2000D.

The Mirage 2000D is the conventional attack version

of the Mirage 2000N Nuclear.

Eurocopter AS332L-2, Super Puma Mk2, F-GHLS.

LB# H55

Eurocopter AS532UL Cougar, F-ZVLJ.

Equipped with Horizon Radar.

LB# H40

Eurocopter AS565AA Panther, F-ZKCT.

LB# H47

Eurocopter AS505 Gerfaut, F-ZWWY.

LB# H48

Dassault Falcon 2000, F-WNAV.

First flight March 4th 1993.

LB# 138

Airbus A321-111, F-WWIB.

First flight of this prototype of the A321 was just 20 day's prior

to the Le Bourget Air show. (May 25th 1993)

LB# 178

Airbus A330-301, F-WWKA.

LB# 56

Airbus A340-211, F-WWBA.

The first three A340's are 300 series, this one is the first

200, first flight was on April 1st 1992.

LB# 179

CASA CN235M, EC-001.

French Armée de L'Air, 330-IH.

Embraer Emb312F Tucano, PP-ZVC.

French Armée de L'Air colors.

LB# 24

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1993.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.