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20th April 2017

… before return to service in a few months. Four RNLAF Apaches, also involved in the MINUSMA mission, returned … home by the end of January. Dave Allport One of the RNLAF CH-47D Chinooks being unloaded from NATO Strategic …

By Kees van der Mark 6th April 2017

… pod and an AIM-9X missile, both recently delivered to the RNLAF. Kees van der Mark EXERCISE ‘CONUS 2017’ saw six Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-16AMs — a mix of Leeuwarden and Volkel-based jets — … the Arizona training areas, including at weekends. The six RNLAF F-16s subsequently fiew to Nellis AFB, Nevada, to …

16th March 2017

… THE ROYAL Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) KDC-10 tanker fleet has begun contributing to … to Kuwait just days before the initial mission. The RNLAF previously contributed tanker support to operations in …

By Mike Green 16th March 2017

… KONINKLIJKE Luchtmacht (KLu, Royal Netherlands Air Force, RNLAF) took delivery of 30 Boeing AH-64D Apaches in … to the US in February 2001, after the majority of the RNLAF’s own Apaches had been delivered. Eight RNLAF Apaches (serials Q-02, Q-03, Q-06, Q-07, Q-11, Q-12, …

By Thomas Newdick 16th March 2017

… in Mali (MINUSMA). In Mali, Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) AH-64Ds will give way to German Heeresflieger (army …

16th February 2017

… is being transferred from the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) to the German Heeresflieger. The RNLAF has been in Mali since April 2014 with four AH-64Ds and … a smooth transition to the Heeresflieger, the last RNLAF helicopters will leave Mali by April 2017. The aircraft …

16th February 2017

… THE ROYAL Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has assumed responsibility for NATO’s 43rd Baltic Air …

By Gerard Gaudin 2nd February 2017

… involved were Belgian F-16AMs FA-124 and FA- 134 and RNLAF F-16AMs J-011 and J-635. Ricardo Smit ON JANUARY 1 the … Belgian Air Component and the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) will undertake four-month rotations to ensure that … arrangement (TA) was signed by the commander of the RNLAF Lt Gen Dennis Luyt, his Belgian Air Component …

16th February 2017

… tanker. Netherlands The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) sent an F-16 detachment from Volkel AB to Al-Azraq AB, Jordan. It arrived on October 3, 2014. The full RNLAF detachment comprised eight F-16AMs, including two …

19th January 2017

… the end of last year, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) and the Belgian Air Component (BAC) each had two F-16s … jets already covered Luxembourg’s airspace. The BAC and RNLAF will now take turns to provide two F-16s for the QRA … late April, the BAC will contribute the two jets. The RNLAF will take over for the next four months, and the two …

26th January 2017

… F-16 is replaced by the F-35A, which in the case of the RNLAF means a combat aircraft force reduction of 61 to only …

29th December 2016

… is painted in the markings of 312 Squadron, a Völkelbased RNLAF unit, but the 1981-built jet actually flew with 323 …

By Alan Warnes 16th February 2017

… to Mali to replace the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) Apaches and Chinooks being withdrawn. The UHT can …

By Thomas Newdick 19th January 2017

… Lithuania transferred to the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) as lead nation on January 5. Unusually, the augmented …