Saturday, March 20, 2021

More choppers and jets

Eindhoven Air Base

Earlier this week I travelled to Eindhoven Air Base and Low Flying Area nr. V for some aviation shots. Eindhoven is a combined civil/military airfield and usually the busiest of the Dutch regional airfields. The Royal Netherlands Air Force has based its tankers and transport aircraft at Eindhoven and as such it attracts a fair number of visiting foreign transport aircraft. Civil operations are currently rather slow with COVID-19 restrictions still in place and Dutch airline Transavia has stored some of its Boeing 737 fleet at Eindhoven.


I was lucky to get some good shots of the last RNLAF KDC-10 air refueling aircraft. T-235 is the sole survivor with T-264 being sold to a company in the USA. The KDC-10's are being replaced with KC-30M tankers. These new aircraft will operate in a multinational fleet with the Netherlands as lead nation. So far three KC-30M's have been delivered, however none flew this day. 


Visiting was German Air Force Global Express 14+04 before departing to Getafe airfield near Madrid.



Low Flying Area Nr. V

As flying was slow at Eindhoven and Low Flying Area nr. V is close by I decided to try my luck there. I was lucky, 1st Platoon 'Johnny Bravo' of the 11th Supply Company, 11th Air Assault Brigade was exercising with 298 Squadron Chinooks and 300 Squadron Cougars.














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