C160 Transall at Hohn	F-104 Starfighter at Kalkar Von Seydlitz Kaserne	F-104 starfighter at Putlos	Lynx at nordholz	MiG-21 at Putlos	Seaking at Kiel	Su-22 at Laage

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Day 1

Luton 21-11-2010

G-LEAA Ce-510
G-SANL BD-700
G-WCCI EMB-135

A6-RTS Gulf-4
CS-DRQ BAe-125
CS-DTH Learjet
HB-JES Gulf-5
LZ-YUR CL-6004
M-BEST Ce-750
M-GRAN BD-700
M-RCCG EMB-135
M-YGLK Gulf-4
M-YNNS Da-7x
N17JK Gulf-4
N25SB CL-601
N36RR Gulf-2
N55GV Gulf-5
N222LX Gulf-5
N874C Gulf-4
OE-HSB Gulf-200
OE-INC BD-700
OH-FFC Da-900
TC-AHE Gulf-150
TR-KSP Gulf-4
YR-TIK BD-700
ZS-SOT BAe-125
4K-AI06 Gulf-5
4K-MEK8 Gulf-5
VP-BLB Da-900
VP-BOK BD-700


So of down to Folkestone for the Chunnel crossing and down the now very boring E40 motorway to Brussels. Nothing military at Brussels on either side, Abalag or
Melsbroke, but it was all fogged in. We could only see on to Abalags ramp and one or two C-130's on Melsbroke in the gloom but logged anyway were


Brussels 21-11-2010

OO-DDA Ce-525
OO-FTS Ce-560
OO-LET Be-200
OO-LFS Learjet
OO-SKM Be-200
OO-SLM Ce-560
N866TM BD-100
VQ-BHA Da-7x
3B-PGF Gulf-4

That was it for Belgium for this trip it was now on into The Netherlands and an ex NVA Mi-2


Schaijk 21-11-2010

Acting as a "Guard" on this private heli-pad is the Mi-2, it can easily be seen from the road which runs past

(94+71) Mi-2s


That done it was now into Germany for a few calls starting with a fun park called "Irrland Freizeit Park" at Twisteden. All the aircraft here can be seen from the outside bar one a civil PZL-101 said to be "SP-CET" c/n 96177, Of note to us are


Twisteden 21-11-2010

(MM583) G-22 ex Italain AF
(MM6356) G-91 ex Italian AF in "Tiger" colours
(4206) Mi-2 ex Polish AF (c/n plate checked as 544602016)

Two An-2's are alos here and they are

SP-(FMP) An-2 ex Polish AF 4723, It's fitted with the wings of SP-FIX
??-??? An-2 (the radio plaet reads "31516" which could be CCCP-31516 which would make it c/n IG199-25 more info needed here

Our next call was Weeze only 4 miles away it's one of Ryanair's hubs. I think just about everything can be read off on the ramps from the terminal area but our main interest was the small museum here holding on to the days when this was RAF Laarbruch


Weeze 21-11-2010

Museum

Only 2 Euros to get in and you will find a whole host of history on the ex RAF station photos, documents and models etc, The two Cock-pit sections are inside the museum in nice condition

(WH849)/- Canberra (Cock-pit only)
(XV337)/- Buccaneer (Cock-pit only)


Weeze Airport 21-11-2010

There were about 10 Ryanair B-737's on the ground here but only one was new ish the rest were the EI-D-- srs etc

EI-EKO B-737 Ryn


Again just a few miles up the road is a German AF barracks with two preserved air frames. The Starfighter can be seen from the outside no problem but the G-91 is a little shy to public view so an e-mail to the barracks security office the week before we set off gained us access for a quick photo or two


Kalkar Von Seydlitz Kaserne 21-11-2010

29+05 F-104
33+10 G-91

Back on the road and another Barrack or Kaserne with a Helicopter on display, The problem with this one was it was dark by the time we arrived but its very close to the un manned gate and the car headlights lit the UH-1 up nicely

Oldenburg 21-11-2010

73+70 UH-1

Hamburg was the next target for another UH-1 and a hotel for the night, The first thing was the "Chopper" this is at a military hospital we knew nothing about except the "Huey" is displayed near the heli-pad. When we arrived at the gate we found nobody around but the gates were open so we drove in to find someone to ask. The next small problem was we found the "Huey" before we found someone to ask. Hmm what to do !!, Answer = A quick photo or two and a quick departure to a hotel ending Day 1


Hamburg Wandsbek 21-11-2010

70+78 UH-1

Day 2

Day 2 started with a look at the Airbus plant at Finkenwerder for a N-2501 Noratlas, a HFB-320 Hansa Jet and some new Airbus,s

Finkenwerder 22-11-2010

A view from the gate area of the airfield saw only new Airbus's but from the North side of the river (and what a drive round that was through the rush hour traffic !) gave us a view of the Noratlas and the Hansa and a good look into some of the the A-380 hangars

(D-CARA) HFB-320 Hansa Jet
(F-GDSG/3) AS-320 Guppy
(157) N-2501 Noratlas Ex French AF

The ex German AF Hansa we wanted to see is stored inside the Airbus plant somewhere i thought it was the one outside

Airbus's notes were

D-AXAB A-320 for ?? (c/n 45??)
D-AXAF A-320 for Shenzhen A/w (B-6721) (c/n 4514)
D-AXAG A-320 for LAN A/l (CC-BAF) (c/n 4516)
D-AXAH A-320 for Indigo (VT-IGX) (c/n 4518)
D-AXAI   A-320 for Alitalia (EI-EIC) (c/n 4520)
D-AXAN A-320 for China Southern (B-6656) (c/n 4322)
D-AXAO A-320 for Lufthansa (c/n 45??)
D-AXI?    A-320 for Alitalia (c/n 452?)
D-A???   A-320 for Tiger A/w Singapore (9V-TAS) (c/n 4493)
D-AUBJ  A-320 for Uzbekistan A/w (VQ-BIO) (c/n 4492)
D-AUBF A-320 for Uzbekistan A/w (c/n 4485)

D-            A-320 for Tiger A/w

(F-HPJF) A-380 Air France
F-WWAT A-380 for Korean A/l (HL8213)
F-WWSN A-380 for Lufthansa (D-AIMF)
(VH-OQH) A-380 Qantas
(VH-OQI) A-380 Qantas
(9V-SKL) A-380 Singapore A/l
(9V-SKM) A-380 Singapore A/l

Req


So that was that done and now heading North West away from Hamburg (And the traffic) for a GA field where some ex mil lives


Uetersen 22-11-2010

An aircraft in the museum at Rothenberg in Germany we have seen once or twice as the same serial as the the aircraft here and been of the same type and us not being able to identify it presented us with a problem so if we looked at both aircraft the problem is solved

JB+110 CL-13 Sabre (The Work Number on the tail solved a mystery this one is W/Nr 1643 and the one at Rothenburg is the other JB-110 W/Nr 1734)

The resident war birds were all locked up in their hangars and were not seen so off we went to another Kaserne


Heidi 22-11-2010

We had not contacted the barracks as we were unable to find an e-mail address but as luck would have it a very friendly guy at the gate took us in anyway so we could take some photos

(35+41) G-91 (Real ID BR-362)
73+09 UH-1

This part of Germany was new to both us, so look at an active C-160 Transall base was a must


Hohn Hugo Junkers Kasserne 22-11-2010

On the gate is the N-2501 and inside the barracks is the JU-52

52+55 N-2501 (Real id 5355)
(6320) AAC-1 (Ex Portugese AF)


Hohn Base 22-11-2010

A first visit for both of us and what a nice base to view at as very easy from the Southern side. The base was also very active with three Transall's seen landing in appx 30 min's

Preserved on base

58+34 Do-28

Active

50+42 C-160
50+45 C-160
50+57 C-160
50+67 C-160
50+79 C-160
50+81 C-160
50+85 C-160
50+87 C-160
50+95 C-160
51+12 C-160

Based UH-1's seen

70+56 UH-1
71+66 UH-1

Before our visit to Kiel we had a sucessful look for the F-104 at Schleswig - Jegel Kassern

Schleswig - Jegel Kassern 22-11-2010

The "staff" is quite easy to spot from the main gate

22+44 F-104 (Real id 22+77)

Now across to kiel

Keil 22-11-2010

Civil terminal

D-FBMT Pc-9
D-FCMT Pc-9
D-FGMT Pc-9
D-FJMT Pc-9
D-FNAH Pc-12
D-GELA P-68


Kiel Base Tour 22-11-2010

A nice little base and a good tour round. I don't think there is much of a view from the outside as one side is the sea and the other side are trees and building so getting on is the only way i think

Preserved on base

59+14 Do-28
"80+52" H-34 (Real id 50+59)

Training Building

89+61 Seaking (This is a ground instructional airframe not the active 89+61 w/o in 1974)

Ramp

89+57 Seaking
89+60 Seaking

Ramp Hangar

89+52 Seaking
89+55 Seaking
89+66 Seaking
89+71 Seaking

Seaking Maintenance Hangar

89+50 Seaking
89+54 Seaking
89+55 Seaking
89+56 Seaking
89+64 Seaking
89+69 Seaking
89+70 Seaking

Seaking Maintenance Hangar Ramp

89+58 Seaking

Visiting

82+62 EC-135

read off flying over

AS+403 P-149 (D-????)


Back on the road before the sun went down and back to the Schlesig - Jagel Base for a look, Only one active, noted the rest were preserved or training aircraft


Schlesig - Jagel 22-11-2010

Preserved on two gates are

Gate 1

EB+250 RF-84
"23+81" F-104 (Real id 20+81)
43+96 Tronado

Gate 2

"EB+396" T-33 (Real id 94+59)

BDRT Area

40+23 Alphajet
4?+?? Tornado (Grey c/s)
??+?? Tornado (Green c/s)

Active

Engine running outside a HAS

46+13 Tornado

So with darkness almost apon us a little nocturnal spotting was in order starting with a drive to the Danish border town of Flensburg for another Starfighter


Flensburg 22-11-2010

We managed just to get up to the Flensburg before it was dark and drove in to the yard of Nord Schrott scrap metal dealers and find the pole mounted "Staff"

21+25 F-104

Being so far North in Germany and you cannot really get any further North brought an idea to mind. Just over in Denmark is the town of Tonder and at the airfield is a preserved Danish AF Draken standing as a gate guard, Well we just had to


Tonder 22-11-2010

AR-102 F-35 Draken Ex Danish AF

Leaving here we drove back into Germany for a hotel in Husum


Day 3


The reason for the hotel in this town was the barracks and airfield have a few aircraft knocking around

Husum Town Barracks 23-11-2010

DE+121 F-84

And the airfield

Husum Schwesing 23-11-2010

99+43 G-91 Preserved on the civil airfield
99+48 G-91 Gate Guard


Heading South for today's visit we had a quick look at Hohn during a Snow shower to see if anything had changed from yesterday

Hohn 23-11-2010

Just two changes but they were welcome

50+59 C-160
50+82 C-160

From here we had the choice of driving back down to Hamburg and up to Nordholz a distance of around 200 miles or take a chance we could get on the ferry that cross's Elbe river which worked out at a 45 mile drive, Not much in it then so Anchor's Away and 12 Euros later we were afloat on the ferry. It takes about 30 min's to do the crossing and cuts off 150 miles of driving so we thought it was well worth it. Arriving at Nordholz base and looking at the museum which is at the enterance we saw the Su-22, The last Su-22 in Germany we needed and the one of the last three ex NVA "Fitters" totally the others are in Italy and Spain (WE must plan a trip or two)

Nordholz Base tour 23-11-2010

We were met at the gate by our guide and got on the coach they had provided and set off to the P-3 hangar and then onto the Lynx hangar

Gate Guard

61+06 Br-1150 Atlantic

Hangar

The ex Dutch Navy Orions looked at home in here

60+01 P-3
60+02 P-3
60+08 P-3

Hangar

61+03 Br-1150 Atlantic (Being broken up as we passed. The nose is going to the museum at the base enterance)
83+15 Lynx

Hangar

83+03 Lynx
83+09 Lynx
83+10 Lynx
83+12 Lynx
83+25 Lynx

Stored in a tent on base

"26+72" F-104 (Real id 22+92)

The tour was not as good as we hoped (Not many aircraft on base and we were not allowed in the Lynx Deep Maintenance Hangar) it would be but we got in and saw a few nice aircraft inc the Atlantic that was getting broken up a big "Gap Filler" for me so i cannot complain. Our guide was very friendly and he got the guys in the hangars to explain everything we asked about. After saying good bye it was into the museum

Nordholz museum 23-11-2010

Another good German museum and the last big one for us

RB-363 Sea Hawk
SC+601 CM-170 (Real id 388 French AF)
UA+113 Gannet
VB+134 Sea Hawk
WE+543 Sycamore
366 Su-22 (Also marked 25+05)
(17+02) VFW-614 (Marked as D-AXDB)
22+98 F-104
43+55 Tornado
45+30 Tornado
54+08 Pembroke
59+19 Do-28
59+22 Do-28
61+14 Br-1150
61+21 Br-1150 (Fuse only Simulator but looks good)
"91+02" Pw-149 (Real id 90+77)
94+01 Mi-8
94+14 Mi-8

Happy with that we departed to Poland !, The next base tour was at Laage some 256 miles away to the East BUT a MiG-21 in poland has been calling for a while and it was only another 160 miles to get it

Goleniow Poland 23-11-2010

Arriving in the town at about 21-00 that evening the MiG was soon found and photographed

9353 MiG-21 Polish AF

A hotel was found near Szczecin leaving a short hop of 150 mile to Laage the next morning

Day 4

The base at Laage only has one entrance and everyone on the tour was in the car park when we arrived 15 min's early we met up and got our names ticked on the list
as being present we met with our guide and went on base and again on a coach for the tour round. Our guide who could not have been any more helpful if he tired took us everywhere. We saw every single aircraft on base and all the preserved bits. The only thing we could not do was take photos of the Typhoons, the preserved aircraft "OK" but not the Typhoons "NO" "My boss told me no photo's" he said

Laage Base Tour 24-11-2010

The Typhoons opperate out of "Flow Throughs" or "Barns" they are like an "Up and Over" garage door these are in two areas on the base with the maintenance hangar and "Wash house" between these areas. Each "Barn" contains one Typhoon

Western Barn Areas

Barn 1 30+11 Typhoon
Barn 2 30+42 Typhoon
Barn 3 30+52 Typhoon
Barn 4 30+05 Typhoon
Barn 5 31+22 Typhoon
Barn 6 30+09 Typhoon
Barn 7 31+18 Typhoon
Barn 8 30+60 Typhoon
Barn 9 31+21 Typhoon
Barn 10 30+56 Typhoon
Barn 11 31+20 Typhoon
Barn 12 30+03 Typhoon

Wash House

30+62 Typhoon (The newsiest addition to the German Typhoon fleet, So why did it need a wash ??)

Maintenance Hangar

30+12 Typhoon
30+24 Typhoon
30+27 Typhoon
30+38 Typhoon
30+45 Typhoon
30+46 Typhoon
30+49 Typhoon
30+55 Typhoon
30+57 Typhoon
31+17 Typhoon

Eastern Barn Areas

Barn 1 30+15 Typhoon
Barn 2 Empty
Barn 3 30+47 Typhoon
Barn 4 Empty
Barn 5 Empty
Barn 6 Empty
Barn 7 30+51 Typhoon
Barn 8 31+16 Typhoon
Barn 9 31+19 Typhoon
Barn 10 Empty
Barn 11 Empty
Barn 12 Empty

Flying

30+50 Typhoon
30+53 Typhoon

30 typhoons logged here

Preserved on the base

JC+102 CL-13 Sabre
25+02 F-104
33+03 G-91
"35+73" F-4 (Real id 75-0631)
330 MiG-23
734 Su-22

Well it don't get better than that, every aircraft on base logged, We said good bye to out host and departed to the next location. Putlos is a live army tank firing range and again arrangements had been made for us to photograph the aircraft that are used on the range as passive targets and for other training. The other thing was there is a MiG-21 that lives on here

Putlos 24-11-2010

As usual we were met at the gate by a very friendly guide and escorted on the range. The F-104 is not with the rest, it's in some woods some 1 km or so away its used for crash rescue training the others are near the mock runway as seen on google earth

24+98 F-104
45+27 Tornado
73+73 UH-01
791 MiG-21

Well as all good things they must come to an end, The very long drive was next back home. The only thing we saw on the drive was as we passed East Midlands on the M1

East Midlands 25-11-2010

D-AAL? B-777 Aerologic
N3??UP B-7676 UPS

My thanks  to DA and ED for getting the tours around the base's well done guys

Hope you made it this far, it's been a long one.

Cheers

Ade (York - UK)

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