Tanzania's Air Force Two!!

(Copyright Johan Havelaar - Planespotters.net)

Aswell as the previously shown Gulfstream, Tanzania also use's the older F.28-3000 Fellowship on Govermental and VIP work. 5H-CCM (c.n.11137) is seen here at Woensdrecht last year, proberly for maintenance.

Back to the Congo...

(Copyright Unknown)

From top to Bottom:-

1. Three Aermacchi MB.326K's sit in that hanger again at Kisangani. Visable are FG-478 and FG-479.

2. Another view of MB.326K FG-479. As a bonus, in this photo, you can also see the tail section of a SF.260MZ Warrior, a couple of Antonov's, a surviving C-130H, and one of the two MiG-23UB's!

3. A flypast by the Air Force over the capital last year, included this Light Grey painted An.26 Curl in full Air Force colours. I just cant discern the serial, so if anyone knows?

4. Also included in that flypast, were these two wonderfully camouflaged Mi-8T Hip-C's. Again, the serials are not visable, so if anyone knows?

5. Photographed a few years ago at Kisangani was this Mi-35 Hind-E serieled 9T-HM2.

6. And finally, that second ex Libyan MiG-23UB Flogger-C serieled FG-2000, and carrying the old Libyan serial of 7920 on its nose!

Remember, a lot of my photo's come from uncheckable source's such as Aviation Forums, so if anyone recognise's a photo that belong's to them, please drop me a line, and i will gladly credit the photo to you!!

Force Aérienne de la Cote d’Ivoire MiG-23MLD's!!

(Copyright Unknown)

Pictured above, are the two ex Bulgarian MiG-23MLD(E) Flogger-K's that were being supplied to the Force Aérienne de la Cote d’Ivoire after the french intervention in 2004, before being impounded at Lome, in Togo.. The one at the rear carries the serial of TU-VCH, and since that TU-VCG is allocated to a Alpha Jet and i can find no record for TU-VCI, im presuming the other could be serialed as that?

The other photo has been seen before, but i dont think youve seen it in high-res. Just wish the ugly black SAAF sign was not in the top corner lol. But hey, its still a super shot!

SA.342M Gazelle's for Iraq

(Copyright Francois13)

The rapidly expanding Iraqi Air Force took delivery of the 6 former ALAT SA.342M Gazelle's last year, and can be seen here being loaded on to a IL-76TD. They were delivered to a new Squadron (88) based at Taji in the north of the country.

YI-298 (c.n.1895) is ex ALAT  3895/BGT

Qatari fast Jets!

(All Photo's Copyright of Guillaume Besnard)

Here's some really nice stuff from the Qatar Emiri Air Force, comprising a lovely Alpha Jet EQ  serialed QA53, two really sleak looking Mirage 2000-5EDA's serialed QA92 and QA94, and a Twin stick Mirage 2000-5DDA serialed QA85.

The two types serve under the control of the 1st Fighter Wing at Doha IAP, with the Alpha's belonging to 11 Squadron, and the Mirage's with 7 Squadron. All the photo's were taken in August 2010.

2e Escadre de Transport Tactique et Logistique Gulfstream IV-SP

(Copyright ThreeForty)

Algeria has used several Gulfstream's down the years. This is a Gulfstream IV-SP from the Algerian Air Force's 2e Escadre de Transport Tactique et Logistique (2e ETTL) based at Boufarik. 7T-VPM (c.n.1421) was photographed last year and carries a Red Crescent marking on the fuselage side, just visable in the top photo.

Bahrain VIP's

Seen here (above) during April 2010, is a Bae146-RJ85 A9C-HWR (c.n.E2306) from the Bahrain Defence Force's Bahrain Amiri Royal Flight based at Shaikh Isa AB.

(All Photo's Copyright ThreeForty)

The Bahrain Amiri Royal Flight also use's this rather smart painted G550 Gulfstream V-SP. A9C-BRN (c.n.5242) operate's out of Sakhir AB.

 

Panama One!

(Copyright Ben King - Planespotters.net)

(Copyright ThreeForty)

A very welcome and rare visitor to Europe recently was this EMB-135BJ Legacy from the Panama Air Force's Escuadrilla Presidencial at Tocumen - Marcos A. Gelabert. She is serialed HP-1A (c.n.14501066) and was delivered last year, so hopefully, we may be seeing a little more of her!

Kazakh Clobber

(Copyright ThreeForty)

Seen during December 2005 this Yak-42D Clobber UN-42641 (c.n.4520423302017) was operated by the Alma Ata based company Khozu Avia, whom operate VIP flights on behalf of the Kazakhstan Goverment.

Morrocan T-6C delivery.

(All Photo's Copyright of Kevin Marchbank - www.flickr.com/photos/kevinwm)

Seen staging through Glasgow on 24th January were the Morrocan Air Forces first 4 T-6C Texan II's of the 24 on order. They carried the codes that were applied to their T-34C Turbo-Mentors, of which, alongside the remaining 14 T-37's, they will be replacing. The Aircraft above are serialed as such:-

CNA-TA/01

CNA-TB/02

CNA-TC/03

CNA-TD/04

Special thanks to Kevin Marchbank