All reports

Iniohos 2019

Iniohos 2019

Iniohos 2019 was held from Monday 1st until Friday 12th of April 2019 at Andravida Air Base, located in the Northwest Peloponnes, Greece. Touchdown Aviation got the great opportunity to visit Andravida Air Base to see the Helenic Air Force and invited Air Forces operating together in the exercise.
Frisian Flag 2019

Frisian Flag 2019

Running from monday 1st to friday 12th of April 2019, Leeuwarden Air Base in the Netherlands was host to the annual Frisian Flag exercise again. Hosting unit is Leeuwarden's 322 Tactess Squadron which took over the role as organisers from the 323 Tactess Squadron due to their transition to the F-35…
RNLAF F-35A Lightning II deploys to the Netherlands

RNLAF F-35A Lightning II deploys to the Netherlands

Back in January 2015, in a debate with local residents from Volkel Air Base, Minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert announced her commitment to send a F-35 Lightning II to the Netherlands for so called noise perception flights. One year of planning later the flights took place at the end of…
RNlAF F-16's for sale

RNlAF F-16's for sale

April 13th gave a rare opportunity to take a ride in the time machine and wander around Volkel airbase, The Netherlands, like it used to be in the '80's and early'90's. At the former 306 Sqn ramp (Safari-park), which has not been used for many years now, 19x F-16 were placed in line for about 200…
Frisian Flag 2016

Frisian Flag 2016

From April 11th - 22nd Leeuwarden Air Base, the Netherlands was host to the annual Frisian Flag exercise. Organised by 322 Squadron, but with support from various units within the RNLAF, and seven participating nations it is the largest NATO exercise in Western Europe this year. Touchdown Aviation…
Flying with the 100th ARW Refueling Aviano F-16s

Flying with the 100th ARW Refueling Aviano F-16s

It's 5am on a dreary Monday morning more likening to a day in November rather than early July. I was asked to meet at the main gate at RAF Mildenhall home of the 100th Air Refuelling Wing which fly the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker, on arriving at to the operations building of the 100th ARW, 351st ARS…
EART 2015

EART 2015

The 2015 edition of the European Air-to-Air Refuelling Training took place at Eindhoven Airbase for two weeks in April and supported Frisian Flag. The emphasis was again to work from a DOB in a multinational environment. It even was more prominent in this year’s training since additionally to last…
Anatolian Eagle 2013/2

Anatolian Eagle 2013/2

Anatolian Eagle 2013-2 was held from 10th of June until 21st of June at Konya Air Base. Compared with Frisian Flag and NATO Tiger Meet it was the third large scale exercise in Europe this year. Touchdown Aviation got the great opportunity to visit Konya Air Base to see the Turkish Air Force and…
Frisian Flag 2013

Frisian Flag 2013

Frisian Flag 2013 was held from April 15th - 26th at Leeuwarden Air Base and the nearby Dutch, German and Danish airspace over the North Sea. This year’s focus was on international cooperation and integration. Touchdown Aviation got the opportunity to see this multi national cooperation at…
Sanicole Sunset Airshow 2012

Sanicole Sunset Airshow 2012

For more than 35 years, Leopoldsburg Airfield, near Hechtel, Belgium has hosted the International Sanicole Airshow. Though being a private organised airshow (the only one in the country) it always gets excellent support from the national and international military demonstration teams. For…
  • 1 (current)
  • 2