atlantique soesterberg

[Withnail]

I paid a visit today to Soesterberg.From outside the fence I saw an Atlantique. Does anybody know what the serial is? I know that it's a former German one. It is now painted in Dutch colours.

[Stefan]

I paid a visit today to Soesterberg.From outside the fence I saw an Atlantique. Does anybody know what the serial is? I know that it's a former German one. It is now painted in Dutch colours.

It is Atlantic 61+20

Regards,
Stefan

[Withnail]

Thanx.You don't happen to know which Dutch serial it'll get?

[ebauer]

I paid a visit today to Soesterberg.From outside the fence I saw an Atlantique. Does anybody know what the serial is? I know that it's a former German one. It is now painted in Dutch colours.

This beauty arrived at the 15th of january 2007 as GNY4750 at Soesterberg together with the crew ferry Atlantic 61+12 as GNY4751. It was great to see those aircraft landing at runway 27!

[P.Terlouw]

Thanx.You don't happen to know which Dutch serial it'll get?

It will become the 250 with tailcode V (from Valkenburg)

[Withnail]

thank you. any idea when the bird will go to the MLM?

[Polleke_NL]

I think the question should be: any idea when the MLM will move towards the Br1150 ?

[frank kramer]

A slightly more extensive answer to Witnails question: The Atla is in store at SSB awaiting the creation of the new Defence Museum in the grounds of the airbase. The original plan was to move the Army Museum from Delft and the Military Aviation Museum from Kamp Zeist to a new location in the grounds of Soesterberg Airbase. This "new" museum was set to open in 2013. There was little point in moving the Atla from SSB to Kamp Zeist (where there's hardly any room for such a large aircraft) if it was to make the return journey to SSB only a few years later. However, the Dutch Ministry of Defence now apparently has second thoughts about the new museum: in its original form, the move is now seen as (too) costly an operation given the costs of the primary missions of Dutch Defence. This may lead to revised plans, cutbacks or whatever. Up to now, the idea is still to move to SSB but it hangs in the balance whether we will get a full-grown museum there. In the light of these uncertainties, the odds (now even more than before) are that the Atla (and the other aircraft stored at the airbase) will remain at SSB.