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Forum for all news, background, discussions and research on vintage aircraft, warbirds and wrecks & relics (stored, preserved, dumped etc). Actual logs -especially those of active airfields- are preferred to be posted in the appropriate Spotters forums.
Two of them have turned up at Bitburg (serious!) One is (BA-51) and the other one at present is unknown. They were noted there recently by some fellow-Eindhoven spotters. See also post and pictures on the ewas-site:
Interesting! But since I am not member of the EWAS? Can somebody who is, please be so kind to explain me where I can find those Mirages on Bitburg (or anybody else who knows?)
If you follow 'Zur Startbahn' you will find them on your right hand side along with some old Russian vehicles. These vehicles are hard to miss and if you walk up to the fence you'll see the aircraft.
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Additional information thanks to Otger van der Kooij and Frank van de Waardenburg: the other fuselage at Bitburg is also ex-Vissenaken: Mirage 5BD BD-13. Both (BA-51) and BD-13 have been there since 2009, so that tallies with Wygert's observation that they were gone in 2009! This leaves only the fuselages of BA-16 and BA-45 unaccounted for.
If you search the word 'asbest' in this Dutch text you'll find a few lines about Vissenaken Depot and why a lot of pieces have moved (and/or will move).