Campa Turzi open day 23.07.16

[bunt]

I was informed about the open day at Campa Turzi on 23.07.16. Though I have not found a reference on internet, I have confirmation from 2 Romanian sources. Gates open at 10:00. I assume the show program will be like the previous years ( see youtube).

[Maudit]

Hello
I have been also confirmed the date of 23

[Levente]

Here is the official poster of the open day:

[Mr AMARC]

A bit late, but worth being posted as I see it ….

Thanks to bunt, Maudit and Levente for posting the information about this open day. In the past years I only learned about this event after it had happened. With a tough time limitation and trying to ‘stay within a reasonable budget’ I went DUS-BUD Friday evening, 6 hours drive, sleep on the parking lot ended abrupt as a SOCAT SA.330 flew loowww over my car, later in the afternoon 6 hours back to Budapest, heading back home very early next morning.

And in between? 4 hours of absolute and pure fun! Hot and sunny weather, 10:00 to 14:00 flying program with the Dacian Eagle F-15’s and Romanian Air Force, nothing else. And they did well! 2 missions of the Eagles, practicing take-off-by-gears-in, simulated approaches and very low passes. Mixed formations with the MiGs, various solo displays and more formations, ending with an air power demo.

What I also really liked was that the air power demo ended with the SA.330s landing in the grass behind the taxiway, crews came out. 8 ladders were lined up by 2 ground crew members and a child each, the 8 MiGs then lined up on the taxiway in front of the crowds. So not only planes and pilots got applause, but many people who had made this demo and the flying displays possible. A great show for the local people, but not only.

All in all: congratulations to the organizers of this small but excellent event!!

Some photos below, and here are ‘the numbers’:
MiG.21MF Lancer C: 5834, 5917, 6105, 6203, 6518, 6607, 6840 all flew, 9611 static
MiG.21UM Lancer B: 172, 9516 – both flew
IAR.99: 707 static, 701, 703, 704, 708, 709 – all flew, plus a 2nd 4-ship**
Yak.52: 24, 30, 38, 40, 42, 43 all flew (+ LY-WAA, LY-WAW)
C-27J: 2701, 2704 – both arrived, 270_ flew solo, a 3rd one landed while I was heading out on the motorway
F-15C: 83-0018, 84-0016, 84-0028, 85-0101, 85-0118, 85-0122, 85-0125 marked ‘104FW’, all coded MA, 131st FS MA-ANG,
80-0018, 84-0014 marked ’144FW‘, plus F-15D 85-0129 all 194th FS CA-ANG
Alouette III: 39, 122 – both flew
SA.330: 02, 06, 60, 61, 66, 78, 87, 90, 92 – all parked, mostly also flew
Mi.8PS: 730 – flew

The unidentified IAR.99s flew just before the 2nd 4-ship, did not return after their only flypast

Some of the stored MiG.21M/MF Lancer A were identified from outside as follows:
071, 3001, 3002, 3003, 6003, 6421, 6707 (unconfirmed), 9615, 9702, 9703, 9808, 3170 (unconfirmed), plus 39__, 861_, 30_3, 67_2

And not to forget, MiG.21M Lancer a 807 is preserved at the roundabout towards Luna.

Regards
Martin


ps:
I just wanted to add a few photos, to find that jpg and jpeg are not allowed .... and bmp have ridiculous file size

[Horatiu]

Hi Martin,

I am glad you could make it and have a nice time. I was also there, on a mad rush to get the Open Days at LRCT and BIAS in Bucharest a week later.

Just to fill in the blanks, the 4-ship formation of IAR-99 were 709, 712, 717 and 720. They came from Boboc, near Buzau, the RoAF primary flying school. Pilots go from there to Bacau to get converted to MiG-21 (or F-16 in future). They are all IAR-99C Soim, fitted with LanceR avionics (glass cockpit, lacking radar, of course). Easy to recognize by the RWR antennae on the nose and chaff/flare dispensers at the base of the fin. 709 broke off and flew a solo display. Even carrying extra fuel tanks under the wings, they could not stay long, flying from Boboc.

The ones that took off from and landed back on LRCT, 701, 703, 704, 708 are IAR-99 Standard, with round gauges in the cockpit. They flew without tanks. 703 flew a solo display.

Regarding the C-27J Spartan, 2704 dropped the parachute display at the start, landed and then flew the solo display. 2706 landed after the end of the event.

See you next year, around the date of 20th July (Saint Ilie, patron saint of Romanian aviation).

Best regards,
Horatiu

[Mr AMARC]

Hi Horatiu,

For a long time your reply slipped through, I only saw it the other day. Thank you for the gap fillers, and sorry for my very late response now.

If the events are known in advance - I heard that more / all Romanian bases have some kind of open doors then - I may come again in July this year. Maybe Fetesti, hoping that the MiGs will still be around then, together with the F-16s.

Or the Baneasa show, which seems like gambling to me, not knowing how many Romanian AF aircraft will show up. Last year was pretty good as it seems.

Best regards
Martin

[michel N]

Does anyone know if/when there will an open day at Campia this year?