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Joop de Groot's Photo Gallery

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D-8281 @ EHYB - Waiting for a buyer that never came. After being withdrawn from active service in 1984 Dutch F-104's were stored at Ypenburg waiting for sale abroad. This was never materialized. Eventually D-8281 ended up at the NlAF technical school.
D-8281 @ EHYB		 D-8104 @ EHVK - This Starfighter was w/o in 1984. One of the last losses of the Starfighter in Dutch service.
D-8104 @ EHVK		 D-8300 @ EHYB - After its withdrawl in 1984 surplus Starfighters were stored at Ypenburg. Three years later a spottersday was organized to give the fans one last opportunity to see these aircraft. D-8300 went to uithuizen afterwards.
D-8300 @ EHYB
D-5803 @ EHYB - Stored for a long time: since 1984 at Ypenburg; now at Soesterberg.
D-5803 @ EHYB		 D-8060 @ EHLW - Take off of one of the QRA Starfighters. Note the live missiles underneath the fuselage.
D-8060 @ EHLW		 D-8058 @ EHLW - This Starfighter was seen during its acceptance flight by the Turkish AF. The Turkish roundels heve been applied already, but the Dutch serial presentation is still in place.
D-8058 @ EHLW
D-5806 @ EHYB - In 1987 there was a final spottersday to photograph the Dutch Starfighters, which had been in storage for three yaers at the time.
D-5806 @ EHYB		 D-8104 @ EHLW - As can be seen on the dart the pilot Skipper has been flying for 30 years!
D-8104 @ EHLW