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June 23 and 24 were planned for a big “Portes Ouvertes” at this transport base, east of Paris. Due too budget cuts it was downscaled to a one day event. Exotic participants like a Mirage 2000 and C-17 from Qatar disappeared from the site. There was a spottersday at the Saturday from 12.30 to 16.00h. This was free excessible, when subscripted. A big row of cars was waiting for the gate, and it opened not before 12.30h. ID-checks were made and it took all a lot off time. First we all had a briefing about the do’s and don’ts! Finally we could enter the static area, but unfortunately all with fences close at the aircraft. The 3 Mirage 2000Ns and Rafales were nice to do with the run-up on the taxi-track. A pair of 2000Ns performing a nice show, you don’t see often! The rehearsels took more time and we could stay till about 5PM. From the Transalls in all dispersals, mostly only tails were visible and 3 flew. The Super Puma at the static was from Solenzara (Corsica). No Pumas or Twin Otters from GAM56 were seen, so you may think this unit moved from here (or did I miss something)? Cougar 2369 had it’s former code FW still visible on it’s tail (ex GAM56?). Pilots from EH01.044 flew the chopper, or is it also from Solenzara? Luckily a C-160Gabriel was on the static with all it’s antennas.
Dispersal North overside:
R88/(61-ZF) C-160R wfu
R208/(64-GH) C-160R ET00.064
Dispersal NE overside (only visible from outside base):
R97/(61-ZA) C-160R ET00.061
5114/(61-PA) C-130H ET02.061
Preserved:
501/64-PE BR.765 pres gate NW
156/64-NJ N.2501F pres gate SW
(253/OL) MH.1521M pres gate NE
(SA167/68-OC) H-34A pres gate NE
The Broussard and H-34 were only visible if you drove around the base and checked the northeast side, just like the dispersal over there! The base museum, with it’s Jaguar, was not found.
Credit: Erik Kamphuis
If anyone knows the 5th Transall in the NW-dispersal??
Was R96 flying from/standing in the NW-dispersal?
R157 not mentioned in the last Scramble, flew from there on saturday.
R88 missed some panels, so WFU.
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