KLu F-16 Fighting Falcon (J-197) from 312 Squadron.
This F-16 will be one of the few F-16's still active in the Royal Air Force in 2023. The transition to the F-35 has been in full swing for some time and in 2024 the last F-16's will be decommissioned. The F-16 will then have been in service for as many as 45 years from 1979.
This picture was taken on 9 June 2023 at Volkel airbase.
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…