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As was already reported in Military News on the 27th:

https://www.scramble.nl/community/messa ... /48/171305

According to a post in Dutch newspaper Telegraaf, quoting a Greek X-account, an ammunition dump of the HAF at Nea Anchialos was on fire with multiple explosions seen and heard today. The airbase was evacuated and the resident F-16's flown to other airbases. There might be a connection to the wildfir...

pluggie wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 14:36

michel N wrote: ↑26 Jul 2023, 14:08 F-35B is geen tweezitter, maar de V/STOL variant

Pipichantal - Michel N - 1:0

Inkoppertje, om in voetbaltermen te blijven...

It is beginning to look more and more like an F-35-only exercise... in a few years time, when the Danish, Finnish and German AF add their F-35's it will be even more so...

Apparently, and according to Aviation Safety Network, the aircraft concerned was CL215 1055 of 355MTM.

Sad news indeed. Blue skies for the brave crew! But, it was a CL215, not a 415. 215’s have black engines to hide the oil and soot stains, 415’s don’t. As pprune mentions, aircraft seems to have hit a tree with the right wing, shearing off its float. Also, the crash was on the island of Evia near Kar...

Thanks for the background on these airframes! Appreciated!

Nice ones! I have never been there, is there someone that can shed some light on the story and the registrations behind the derelict S-92 airframes?

Great set! Love the diversity, thanks for sharing!

Indeed, it was, thanks! Grumman American AA-5 Traveller G-BEZG. Identified by its tail, its colours and its landing gear that could be seen in my picture of its neighbour on the static, G-BNKI It's not in the official RIAT checklist, though...

thanks!

Small CIVIL question: what civil aircraft was in the static next to yellow Cessna G-BNKI? It had covers on early morning so I did not bother to check; on the way out I forgot...

And some “add-ons” for the saturday flying programme:

ZZ335 flew in formation with Finnish Hornet HN-421,
ZM154/020 flew in formation with Spanish EAV-8B
13-5776 was the MC-130J that flew in formation with CV-22 11-0058

The story at the time of the transfer to Heerenveen was that the fin had (almost) come off during a storm in early 2022. But it is not just the Dutch climate... Before it came to Soesterberg, it belonged to the Greek AF and had been withdrawn from use there for many years, having been stored in the ...

73-1676 according to adsb. Clearly visible over Almere, unfortunately not one I needed…