Paris Air show Le Bourget 1997

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).

As always we went to the French Capital to see what the aviation-scene had in store for us this edition of the Paris Air show.

This is what we found in 1997 !

Grumman EC-2+ Hawkeye 164109.

US Navy.

MCD Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, 164238/AJ-407.

US Navy VFA-87.

Grumman F-14D Tomcat, 164341/NK-113.

US Navy VF-31. 

Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk, 164465/HR-500.

US Navy HSL-48/Det.1

MCD Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II, 164558/EM-65.

US Marines HMM-261.

MCD Douglas F/A-18C Hornet, 164627/AJ-300.

US Navy VFA-15.

Sikorsky UH-60A Black hawk, 88-26055.

US Army 159th MedCo.

Lockheed F-16C Fighting Falcon, 90-0831/SP.

US Airforce 22nd FS.

Boeing E-8C Joint-STARS, 92-3290/WR.

US Airforce 93rd ACW.

MCD Douglas AH-64D Apache Longbow, 90-0324.

MCD Douglas Helicopter Company, 3rd prototype of

the AII-64D model.

Bell/Boeing BB609 Model of "Osprey-Like"

Aircraft.

Sukhoi Su-27IB "Flanker"

Sukhoi OKB displayed as Su-32FN.

LB# 343.

Sukhoi Su-37 "Flanker"

Sukhoi OKB.

LB# 344.

Mikoyan MiG-AT, 81.

MAPO.

LB# 350

Mil Mi-8AMTS "Hip", RA-25755.

UUALO.

LB# H351.

Ilyshin IL-76MF, RA-76900.

Ilyushin OKB.

LB# 338.

Ilyushin IL-114T, RA-91005.

Ilyushin OKB.

LB# 336.

Ilyushin IL-96T, RA-96101.

Ilyushin OKB.

LB# 337.

Dassault Rafale B, B01.

Dassault Aviation.

Dassault Rafale M single, M01.

Dassault Aviation.

Dassault Rafale M dual, M02.

Dassault Aviation.

Airbus A340-313, F-WWAI.

Airbus Industries.

LB# 62.

Airbus A319-132, F-WWDB.

Airbus Industries prototype of Airbus A319.

LB# 70.

Eurofighter EF2000, MMX603.

Alenia (DA7)

LB# 71.

Eurofighter EF2000, XCE.16-01.

CASA (DA6)

LB# 76.

IAR-99 Soim, 718.

Romanian AF.

LB# 331.

IPTN CN235-100MPA, AX-2314.

Indonesian Navy, 5sqn.

CASA C212-400, EC-212.

CASA.

LB# 101.

Canadair CL-415, F-ZBFQ/43.

Securite Civile Fire fighter.

Pilatus PC-12 Eagle, HB-FOG.

Pilatus Aircraft.

LB# 387.

Airbus A300-B4-203F, N740SC.

C-S Aviation/Heavy lift.

LB# 264.

IPTN N250-50, PK-XNG.

IPTN.

LB# 288.

Embraer EMB312H Super Tucano, PP-ZTV.

Embraer.

LB# 39.

This concludes our tour of Le Bourget Air show 1997.

Photo's: Rob Vogelaar.

Research: Rob Vogelaar.

Text/web page: Marcel van Leeuwen.