Base Visits
Frisian Flag 2022
From Monday, March 28, 2022 until Friday, April 8, 2022 was Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands the hub of the major NATO exercise Frisian Flag. In recent years, this annual meeting of various air […]
Netherlands
Military fact sheets
Photo Reports
APROC 2018 Gilzen Rijen AB, Netherlands
APROC 2018 – From 23 May to 6 June Every year the European Personnel Recovery Center (EPRC) organizes the ‘Air Centric Personnel Recovery Operatives Course (APROC). This year in the Netherlands at Gilze Rijen Air […]
Photo Reports
Frisian Flag 2017 exercise Leeuwarden AB, Netherlands
1,100 personnel and 48 aircraft from 7 NATO nations have descended on Leeuwarden Air Force Base in the Netherlands for the start of the two-week-long “FRISIAN FLAG” exercise. The local Dutch population have been treated […]
Dutch Air Force Public Days
2016 Leeuwarden AFB, Dutch Air Force public days
June 11th 2016, it’s a grey saturday in the far north of the Netherlands. Location Leeuwarden AFB. F-35 Lightning II This year the public days of the Dutch air force are dominated by the presence […]
Aviation Museums
2016 National Military Museum Netherlands
The National Military Museum in Soesterberg / Netherlands offers a combination of Army, Navy and Air Force history of the Netherlands. In the past the different military parts of the Dutch defense had their own […]
Aviation Museums
2004 Aviodrome The Netherlands
Aviodrome, Aviation Museum, Lelystad The Netherlands. Up to a few years ago The most interesting Aviation Museum in The Netherlands was based at Schiphol International Air Port in a dome-like building, it was called Aviodome. […]
Civilian fact sheets
Fokker F-50
The Fokker F-50 was seen as a more modern version of the F-27 from the Dutch Aircraft builder Fokker. That was not the case, the F-50 was a completely re-designed aircraft of very high standards […]