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Joop de Groot's Photo Gallery

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D-8268 @ EHYB - Storage of the redundant Dutch Starfighters.
D-8268 @ EHYB		 D-8268 @ EHLW - This pilot was a bit unlucky. After he had landed J-217 crashed onto the runway (see J-217). He was not ablr to take off again and had to stay in Leeuwarden for the weekend.
D-8268 @ EHLW		 D-8059 @ EHLW - visitor to Leeuwarden
D-8059 @ EHLW
D-8266 @ EHVK - In 1981 Volkel was still an all Starfighter base.
D-8266 @ EHVK		 D-8259 @ EHLW - target tow flight for the F-16 pilots of Leeuwarden.
D-8259 @ EHLW		 D-8286 @ EHLW - 1980 was the last year of the Starfighter interceptors in Dutch service. That summer the first were sold to Turkey.
D-8286 @ EHLW
D-8286 @ EHLW - Take off by one of the Quick Reaction Alert aircraft. Scrambles like this took place on a very regular basis during the eighties.
D-8286 @ EHLW		 D-8259 @ EHVK - My first visit to Volkel: lots of Starfighters!
D-8259 @ EHVK		 D-8258 @ EHYB - The last opportunity to photograph the Dutch Starfighters was during the spottersday of 1987. Four years after being wfu the spotters community was invited to visit Ypenburg store before the Starfighterster were dislocated to various spots in the Netherla
D-8258 @ EHYB
D-8258 @ EHVK - Great to see and hear the Starfighters roar!
D-8258 @ EHVK		 D-8342 @ EHLW - landing at the Leeuwarden 06
D-8342 @ EHLW		 D-8257 @ EHLW - landing at Leeuwarden
D-8257 @ EHLW