Royal Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Registration: J-628.
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a single-engine multipurpose fighter jet in wide use since 1979. In the Netherlands and Belgium, it was the successor to the F-104 Starfighter.
The last Royal Air Force F-16's were retired from service in Septembetr 2024. The replacement of the F-16 with the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II was underway in 2019.
This picture was taken on 24 June 2020 at Leeuwarden 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…