KLu Opendays  Gilze-Rijen AB  Arrivals,  16 June 2005

As said before Maurice, Fred and I arrived early in the morning at Gilze-Rijen AB to see the arrivals of the KLu Opendays. All three of us work for the Royal Netherlands Air Force, so we were able to enter the airbase with our military IDs.

The day began with the arrival of a USAF KC-135R of RAF Mildenhall. The next movement was the departure of the Egypt Air Force Hercules which brought the Gomhouria Mk.8. The Gomhouria is actually a Bücker Bü-181 Bestmann, which is build by the Egyptian Heliopolis Aircraft Works. At least 300 Gomhouria's were build in Egypt and both the Algerian and Egypt Air Force operated several of them.

Some other nice highlights of the KLu Opendays at Gilze-Rijen AB were the two Phantoms of the Turkish Air Force and of course the Hellenic Air Force Phantom which were parked next to each other. Besides the arrivals we were able to take some shots of the rehearsals.