(1973) Deelen (NL) Open Day June 1973

“Thanks to the magnificent weather over 200.000 people watched a good static show and aerial display. Especially interesting were two LTV Corsairs of USS John F. Kennedy, which had flown from Italy to Holland the day before the show. Another interesting bird was a Turkish Air Force RF-5A, which made a fly-past together with a Dutch and a Norwegian one. The Turkish aircaft was said to come from Rheine-Hopsten where it was taking part in a squadron-ritation.

Due to the regulations set by the Dutch gouvernment which is against flying displays (“dangerous, noisy, pollutionary”) the major part of the show consisted of light aircraft such as Piper Cubs, Alouettes, Beaver, etc…

The event was set up in order to celebrate the 60th KLu anniverary and therefor lots of historical aircraft had been transfered to Deelen One of the most ionteresting a/c was a F-86K Sabre, Q-305, which had been in active service  with the Italian Air Force very recently. The Italian squadron marking (23 Gruppo) was still on the aircraft,  plus a batge of 5 Stormo”

Quote from an article in a 1973  FLASH Magazine article

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