French Air Force NordAtlas with code 63-VJ

[Polleke_NL]

Went through the "old shoebox" and ran into a slide of a FAF NordAtlas with tailcode 63-VJ. Unfortunatelly I can not read the serial on the tail. I have no clue where or when it was taken, all I know is that it was on a Dutch Airfield as support for Patrouille de France and I do recall having seen an earlier topic somewhere on Scramble where more pictures of this bird were shown but I cannot find that thread anymore....
Can anyone help me with the serial ? The tailcode is unknown in the Scramble database so that was no help

[gatso76]

Perhaps 201:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/France-- ... 0156457/L/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[P.Terlouw]

the 201/63-VJ was the support of the PdF at the Open Dag at Soesterberg in 1984. It was parked at runway 13/31 beside the Alpha Jets. Maybe you took the picture there?

[Heron]

Hm... just beaten by the clock. I was to suggest the same: N201/63-VJ seen 1 september 1984 at Soesterberg as PdF-support. Pictures of Key and myself in "old pictures of Soesterberg" and "Wrecks and Relics" fototopics (title name may be slightly different because of bad memory )

[P.Terlouw]

dit was hem

[Polleke_NL]

I think I'm getting old or it must be the booze...., didn't even recall ever having been at an open day at Soesterberg (but a quick look through my old open day programms does confirm that I've been there??)

But thanks for the info, that indeed is the one !!

[Gerard]

Does anybody remember this Nora leaving after the Open Day?

Take-off from runway 27, followed by a left hand pattern and a very low overshoot over the spottersplace and runway 31

25 years ago........, but it seems like yesterday!

Gerard