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of the 21st CenturyEXPERT MILITARY AND INDUSTRY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Colonel DeAnna Franks, Vice Commandant, 139th
Airlift Wing, US Air National Guard
Colonel Julien Moreau, Commanding Officer, Flying
Education and Training Command, French Air Force
Colonel George Ferido, 110th Army Aviation
Brigade Commander, US Army Aviation Center
Colonel Georg von Harling, Commander of the
Technical Training Centre, German Air Force
Colonel Martin Jandourek, 22nd Helicopter Wing
Commander, Czech Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel David Max, Commandant, Inter-
European Air Forces Academy, US Air Force Europe
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Koell, Commander
of the Pilot Training Institute, Austrian Air ForceLieutenant Colonel Erik Rozema-Seaton,
Commanding Officer, 426 Transport Training
Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Simon Zsolt, Chief of Flight
Training Department, Hungarian Air Force
Major Becky Frater, Regimental Electronic Warfare
Instructor, 1st Regiment Army Air Corps, UK MoD Joint
Helicopter Command
Major Michael Rosenqvist, Project Manager, Military
Flying Training System MFTS, Swedish Air Force
INDUSTRY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Senior Representative, Leonardo
Senior Representative, Diamond Aircraft Industries
GmbHBENEFITS OF ATTENDING:- Briefings on the latest developments
in flight training across fast-jet, rotary-
wing, fixed-wing and ground crew
training - Hear updates from OEMs such as
Leonardo, delivering the latest flight
training platforms and systems - New for 2019: technical air crew
training, pilot retention and attrition
reduction, and cooperating with
external contractors for increased
training efficiencies
First H145M
arrives in Serbia
THE FIRST of five
H145Ms ordered for the
Ratno vazduhoplovstvo
i protivvazduhoplovna
odbrana (RV i PVO, Serbian
Air Force and Air Defence)
has arrived in the country.
Serial 14501 (c/n 20231),
was flown to Serbia from
Germany on June 12, still
wearing the temporary
German registration D-HADD.
Currently based at
Batajnica, the RV i PVO
H145M fleet will eventuallymove to Niš, where they
will serve with the 119. mhe
(mešovita helikopterska
eskadrila, mixed helicopter
squadron). Two will be
equipped for utility duties
while three will be armed
with seven-barrel launchers
for 80mm (3.15in) rockets
and pods for 12.7mm
M87 machine guns.
Serbia acquired nine
H145Ms, and the remaining
four will be assigned to
the ministry of interior.Special marks for
338 Mira Phantom
THE ELLINIKI Polemiki
Aeroporia (Hellenic Air
Force, HAF) sent two F-4Es
to Volkel Air Show in the
Netherlands in June. One
of the jets, serial 01507,
belonging to the Andravida-
based 338 Mira ‘Ares’ – the
final HAF Phantom operator- received special colours on
its tail and both wing tanks.
Ares, the Greek god of war,
is painted on one side of
the tail, with the Phantom
‘spook’ and ‘338 Goes
Pholkel’ titles on the reverse.
Both Phantoms landed on
June 13 and departed on
the 17th, making a fuel stop
Edwin Schimmel at Aviano Air Base, Italy.The fi rst H145M for
the RV i PVO was
offi cially unveiled
at the Partner 2019
defence exhibition in
Belgrade on June 25.
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