2004 Volkel air show
I was not able to visit the actual Volkel 2004 KLu Open Dag – just attended the aircraft arrival and rehearsal Friday before the actual airshow. This is the reason for the very small number of photographs and all being made of landing/ passing aircraft.

In the year 2004 the KLu still had Fokker transports in its inventory - as can be seen on these photographs the Fokker 60UTA U-01 - in its remarkable two tones grey scheme. the Dutch 131sq EMVO PC7's were still flying in their first yellow c/s, on this day during a 3-ship performing a demo. Lakenheath F15E's also joined this airshow, one being the 492nd FS squadron bird.
A total of 4 Sea Harriers (!) - two dual seat T8's and tweo FA-2's - both from the (Royal Navy) Fleet Air Arm 899sq participated in the show. Even for Harriers rare models during that era. A Bulgarian An30, USAF KC135 with RAF Nimrod in the background were among the most special visitors.












The usual early 2000's other types joined the airshow: German and British Tornado's, the usual Belgian birds (F16/ SF260/ Alpha Jet/ Sea King), Luftwaffe C160/ F4/ Bo105, French Mirage 2000, and NATO AWACS. Noteworthy were the Italian AMX/ Tornado ECR and F16's(!) and RAF Jaguar.
The Tornado ECR was adorned with Sharkmouth and equipped with AGM88 HARM's for its SEAD role - on the photograph below the backseater can be seen waving; another small (but normally not done) feature: part of the photo roll can be seen across the photograph which was a fault during development, nevertheless making it an 'authentic fault' never again to be seen during the digital photo camera era!
Another cool thing about this airshow was the fact of 4 flying ex-KLu AT16 Harvards - one can be seen below in Royal Canadian Air Force colors and markings.
Show report Scramble: https://www.scramble.nl/database/show-reports/netherlands/volkel-2004