We are pleased to introduce the sixth edition of Scramble Military Serials - Europe. Again a lot of hard work and effort went into making this book as accurate and up-to-date as possible. Nevertheless, it will contain some errors and omissions. If you have any additions and/or corrections we will be more than happy to receive them!
The book contains over 400 pages, in softback .
What is included?
All European countries, except Russia, and all United States and Singapore military aircraft permanently stationed in Europe are included. For every country all types are listed that have at least one aircraft of that type active as of 1 January 2010. All serials of that type are shown, including stored, written off, preserved, etc, examples. When applicable, the former identity, including FMS serials, are mentioned. Some exceptions are made (e.g., for the RAF Spitfires only BoBMF examples are shown). Where exceptions are made, this is mentioned in the book. For every country we have included as much information as possible. This means that “semi-military” forces, like the Italian Guarda di Finanza are also included.
New this year is, we also included all Order of Battle of the European Air Arms!
What is not included?
Russia is not included. Information on Russian Forces is too scarce to produce a reasonable overview of types. For all other countries, types that are no longer in service are not shown.
Orbats
The Order of Battles contains details of all flying units within the (semi-) military air arm.
Data
The overviews are sorted by (basic) type. All overviews show the following data, reading from left to right:
- Serial: the (allocated) serial of the aircraft.
- Code: the tactical code worn by the aircraft.
- Type: the exact type of the aircraft, for example AB412SP.
- c/n: the manufacturer serial number of the aircraft.
- Previous id: former military serial or civil registration.
- Unit: the unit of the aircraft. With preserved/stored aircraft the location is given.
- Last noted: by Scramble database.
- Status: all status other than active are shown:
 - std: stored
- pres: preserved
- wfu: withdrawn from use
- i/a: instructional airframe
- scr: scrapped
- o/o: on order
- ntu: not taken up
- civ: transferred to civil market
- mil: transferred to other military user
- Remark: additional remarks, for example "anniversary markings"
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