Gilze Rijen
Gilze-Rijen AB Open Day (NL), July 2002
October 22, 2016 | Frank
On 5 and 6 July 2002 Gilze-Rijen AB was open to the public; it was a standard static- and airshow without special surprises. Below are some photos Frank took during the event:
Gilze Rijen (NL) Open Day, June 2014
July 3, 2014 | Hans
The 2014 Open Days of the Royal Netherlands Air Force took place at Gilze Rijen AB both on June 20th and 21st and Hans was present on Saturday the 21st , working his way through the crowd and taking the pictures shown in this gallery.
Gilze-Rijen Open Day (NL), June 18th, 2010
October 26, 2012 | Hans & Frank
Hans and Frank attended the Luchtmachtdagen (Air Force Days) at Gilze Rijen AB on the 18th of June 2010.
Gilze Rijen Airshow (NL), July 4 – 5, 1997
October 26, 2012 | Hans & Frank
The 1997 annual RNethAF Open Days were held at Gilze-Rijen AB on 4 and 5 July; Hans and Frank were there and here are some of their pictures.
Open Day Gilze Rijen AB (NL), August 26th, 1972
October 24, 2012 | Hans & Frank
The second K.Lu Open Day in 1972 was the one at Gilze Rijen AB on August 26th . There were no foreign aircraft present , but the mass-scramble of 316 squadron’s Northrop-Canadair NF-A/B’s attracted much attention by the assembled spotters and other spectators. Hans and Frank show you some of the pictures they made during that day.
Gilze-Rijen Open Day (NL), August 15 – 16, 1969
October 24, 2012 | Hans & Frank
Gilze Rijen AB was open to the public on August 15th and 16th , 1969 ; these are the pictures Hans took there on August 16th , plus some b/w ones , made by Frank , the day before.
Spotting at Gilze Rijen (NL)
October 19, 2012 | Hans
Hans made a number of pictures outside the fences of Gilze Rijen AB (NL) in the course of years especially of U.S. aircraft during deployments but also of other types in their landing patterns.
In the case of deployments it was still not certain beforehand if he would be successful and if yes to what extent.
A selection of these images are or will be included in this gallery.
Sixties and Later Years : Prominent Dutch civil (PH-) registrations
October 19, 2012 | Hans & Frank
When Warbirds first took to the sky during the Sixties lots of them were kept in flying condition with their assigned civil registrations prominently visible .The (Lancaster-Spitfire-Hurricane) aircraft of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight were among the first to be seen , painted in military colours. In the Netherlands the first Warbirds were some ex-KLu -Harvards such as the ones in this gallery , photographed at the Gilze Rijen airshow on August 26 , 1972 , with their PH-registrations prominently visible . Only in later years it became gradually more common to re-paint them entirely in (former) military colours but also then warbirds could sometimes be seen with their civil-registrations clearly visible. Read More
