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Academia General del Aire’s 75th anniversary
On June 10, the Ejército del Aire’s Academia General del Aire (Spanish Air Force Academy) staged an air show to commemorate its 75th anniversary. Flypasts featuring
former and current aircraft operated by the Academia General del Aire took place off the coastline near San Javier Air Base, including a North American T-6G Texan
and a Beechcraft T-34A Mentor belonging to the Fundación Infante de Orleans flying museum. This photo shows a current Academia General del Aire CASA C-101
leading an historical and unique formation comprising a T-6G, T-34A and a ENAER T-35 Tamiz. Roberto Yáñez
The first Republic of Korea Air Force Airbus A330-243 Multi Role Tanker Transport, serial number 18-001 (msn 1787), resumed test flights from Getafe, Madrid on June
- Following painting in its Republic of Korea Air Force light grey colour scheme at Manching, Germany, the aircraft arrived at Getafe on June 8 before making two
short test flights on June 15. Roberto Yáñez
All grey for Korea’s A330 tankers
Boeing’s subsidiary Aviall has
become part of the Paramount
Group’s Advanced High-
Performance Reconnaissance
Light Aircraft (AHRLAC) programme
and will manage the aircraft’s
supply chain, as well as join the
team to promote the aircraft in
the United States as the Bronco
II. Boeing said that Aviall will alsobe responsible for the militarised
Mwari version of the AHRLAC,
while Boeing Global Services will
offer centralised command and
control of flight operations and
total life cycle support. Bronco
Combat Systems was launched
in February this year with Fulcrum
Concepts LLC to position the
AHRLAC in the US market, but itis too late for the US Air Force’s
operational light attack experiment
dubbed OA-X. Nevertheless, the
AHRLAC is being offered to meet
the intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance requirements of
Special Operations Command, the
US Army, US Navy and US Air Force,
and the US Customs and Border
Protection. Guy MartinAviall joins Bronco II-AHRLAC team
Japan’s
F-35As move
to Misawa
All five Japan Air Self-Defense Force
F-35As which had been based at
Luke Air Force Base, Arizona for
crew training arrived at Misawa
Air Base on Honshu Island on May- They joined Rinji F-35A Hikotai
(Special F-35A Squadron), which will
assume the lineage of 302 Hikotai
when it retires its F-4 Phantoms.