General Dynamics F-16A of the Royal Air Force.
Registration: J-512 (87-0512).
The F-16 in this picture was built by Fokker at Schiphol Airport as an F-16A Block 15U and entered service with the Royal Air Force in November 1989. In 1999, the aircraft was upgraded to F-16A Block 20 MLU (MLU stands for midlife update).
This aircraft has served with various squadrons of the Air Force over the years including 315, 311, 313, 323 and 312.
This photo was taken on 24 September 2024 at Volkel Air Base during a special spotter's afternoon organised due to the phasing out of the last F-16's at the Royal Air Force.
This photo has a slightly too high ISO value of 500 (maximum 400) according to Werk aan de Muur guidelines, which is why I treated the photo with noise reduction in post-processing.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…