During WWII seven members of the Royal Air Force 100sqdn. were killed when on October 20, 1943 their Avro Lancaster was shot down over Eelderwolde. On May 4, 1995 a delegation of the 100 squadron came in with the Hawks XX193/CB, XX248/CJ & XX352/CP from RAF Finningly to be present at the memorial service for the victims of WWII in Eelde. The photographed Hawk T.1A XX248 was delivered December 18, 1978 to the Royal Air Force as a BAe Hawk T.1.

F'Airlines was established early 1995 and operated a number of EMB-110P Bandeirantes and Reims-Cessna F.404 Caravan IIs. These feeder liners were operated on the scheduled services Enschede-Amsterdam and Groningen-Amsterdam. The Groningen-Amsterdam service was flown 6 times a day. After F'Airlines was integrated in KLM Exel in 1998 KLM Exel decreased the number of flights on both services to 3 times a day. Within 6 months KLM Exel stopped the regular services. Embraer EMB.110P1 Bandeirante s/n 110-217 PH-FVC entered service with F'Airlines on February 2nd 1997. It was registered before G-BNIX, N8536J, XC-DAB and PT-GMJ.

Titan Airways was a regular visitor. This London-Stansted based operator visited Eelde with their Cessna 404 Titan, ATR-42, Short SD3-60 and BAe146-200QC airliners. Their 1988 built Short SD3-60-100 G-ZAPD (ex. G-14-3741; G-BOFK; G-OLGW), painted in their fantastic World colours, was photographed on September 22, 1998, when in on a passenger charter. This Shorts 360 was operated by Titan Airways from August 1992 until it was sold in December 2000 and is still active as N875RR with Roblex Aviation Corporation, Puerto Rico.

Golden Air AB operates a number of SAAB 340 and 2000 airliners out of Trollhattan in Sweden. Golden Air operates next to scheduled flights to destinations in Finland and Sweden charter and air taxi flights. Their SAAB 340B SE-ISG was photographed October 16th 1999 at the Eelde tarmac when it was in with a passenger charter. The passengers were guests with the launching of a cargo ship on one of the shipyards in Groningen. On October 17 the airliner returned to Sweden. This SAAB 340B was flown first on September 5th 1989 and delivered on October 27th 1989 as SE-ISG to Golden Air AB.

The British Aerospace Advanced Turboprop or ATP is a twin turboprop airliner for up to 72 passengers. Manx Airways operated a number of these airliners. It was almost a tradition that a Manx ATP/J61 flew to Eelde in the first weekend of September. On these flights motorsport enthousiasts were flown in for the Super Bikes which take place that weekend on the TT-circuit in Assen. Not only with the Super Bikes but also with other motorcycle events Manx was present at Eelde. The G-MANA was photographed during the Centennial TT on May 10, 1998.

The Jos L.Meyer-Werft in Papenburg, Germany is well known for the cruise ships they build. Among them the Galaxy and the Mercury. One of the customers of this shipyard is P&O Cruises with ships like the Oriana. About the building of that ship, Discovery channel made a documentary. Over the years P&O Aviation was a regular visitor at Groningen Airport Eelde not only with their jets, but also with their Sikorsky S-76. Their Bombardier Challenger VR-CPO was photographed on May 16, 1995.

On July 10, 1997 Tarom' Antonov An-24RV YR-BME came in with a Rumanian football team. The development of the An-24 started in 1957. The first of two prototypes flew on October 20th 1959. Deliveries of the An-24V started in 1962. The big difference of the An-24RV versus the An-24V is a small turbojet in the right engine nacelle to boost takeoff performance. Over 1460 An-24 variants were built in Kiev, Irkutsk and Ulan Ude in the former USSR/Ukraine. An An-24 variant entered production in China as the Xian Y-7.

Air Europa operated the charter program to Las Palmas. On this route they used as well the 737 as the 757. Boeing 737 EC-GHD was photographed February 5, 1997. This Boeing flew first on April 17, 1991 and was delivered on May 29, 1991 as OO-LTN to TEA. After TEA Belgium stopped her flying activities the aircraft was registered N682MA on December 20, 1991. May 13, 1996 this Boeing was transferred to Air Europa and it received the temporary registration EC-262 in Spain. The aeroplane was reregistered EC-GHD on July 30, 1996. In 1998 Air Europa was replaced on the Las Palmas route by Iberworld with the Airbus 320.

The 1944 built Mustang N167F of the Scandinavian Historic Flight Ltd. is not only a guest at the airshows in Europe. In 1989, painted in a green colourscheme and called "Cisco", it was one of the aircraft acting in the film "Memphis Belle". When it was at Eelde for refuelling on April 28, 1996 it was painted in WWII USAF cs as 473877 "B6-S" . The "Old Crow" was that day on route England - Norway. The "Old Crow" saw RCAF service from 1951 to 1958 as 9279. It was registered: N6320T, CF-PCZ and N167F. After it crashed on September 1,1968 in Euless, USA the airframe was rebuilt by Vintage aircraft of Ft. Collins. After the restoration was finished, the "Old Crow" made its first flight in 1985. The real "Old Crow" was USAAF serial 44-14450 from 357th Fighter Group, 363rd Fighter Squadron, 8th Air Force, Leiston, Suffolk, UK.

The RLS started their operations in 1946. When the KLS celebrated in September 1996, all types of aircraft which they operated over the past 50 years were invited. Between 1964 and 1976 seven Morane-Saulnier MS.760B.GFS Paris II jet trainers were operated. The French Air Force was invited and came in with Morane-Salnier MS.760 Paris IR 34 /133-CG. This 1959 built MS-760 Paris IR was one of 36 delivered to the French Air Force. It was photographed on September 7, 1996 at the ramp between the KLS hangars.

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