Posts Tagged ‘Hellenic Air Force Patches’

Royal International Air Tattoo took place last weekend 18 & 19 of July 2009 in Fairford UK. With over 300+ aircraft participating each year, upwards of 170,000 visitors and support from the Royal Air Force and some of the world’s leading aerospace companies, the Royal International Air Tattoo has been acknowledged as the world’s largest military airshow. Greece participated RIAT 2009 with a RF-4 E Phantom II of 348 Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron which is placed in Larisa 110 CW. Other countries that participated can be found in the following List: Click HERE to view.
The pilots of Hellenic Air Force arrived Fairford on Thursday 16 and left the airport on Monday 20 of July. In the following pictures that are taken from our friend Kostas Tsipas you can see the crew and the technicians that accompanied the RF-4E Phantom of 348 TRS also patches, stickers and book that were sold to viewers of RIAT in Fairford. Please enjoy
348 TRS RF-4 E Phantom II Arrival & Departure Video

Read more »

Download now your own:

1280 x 800

Please see two new donations. We trully thank K. Alkousis for that:

From the common exercise BRAVE HEART SOUTH 2008 between 330, 341, 347 Squadrons of the Hellenic Air Force in 111 CW and Mig-29 Fulcrums of Bulgarian Air Force from GRAF IGNATIEVO Air Base.

The Red Flag exercises, held periodically at the Nellis Air Force Base since 1975, are very realistic aerial war games. The purpose is to give pilots from the U.S., NATO and other allied countries an opportunity to practice and refine their skills for real combat situations. This includes the use of “enemy” hardware and live ammunition for bombing exercises within the Nellis complex. The exercises with flares and all kinds of aircraft can make a spectacular show, especially at night. There are usually two or three sorties per day (except on weekends): One or two sorties during daytime and one in the evening or at night. The night exercises usually inlude only one half of the daytime forces.

There are two teams, the good guys (Blue Team) and the aggressors (Red Team). The Red Team is composed of Nellis AFB-based pilots specially trained for this purpose, flying F-15 and F-16 aircraft. The Blue Team is composed of the various guest “players” in their native aircraft.

Read more »

The 335 Squadron with callsign “Tiger”, is the oldest squadron of the Hellenic Air Force, as it was established when Greece was under German occupation, in October 1941 at the Palestinian airport of Akir, i.e. a few months after Greece’s total occupation by the Germans.

The first squadron pilots were officers of the Hellenic Royal Air Force, who had been sent to Iraq since 1940 to be trained by British officers, as well as many pilots who abandoned Greece after the occupation, for carrying on the liberation fight.

The squadron was initially equipped with the fighter aircraft Hurricane-IIB and thereafter with the Hurricane-IIC and was subordinated to the RAF 339 Combat Wing. With these aircraft, it operates until December 1943, when the modern Spitfire VB and VC replaced them.

Read more »

336 Squadron is today under 116 Combat WIng placed in Araxos Air Base. Read some Historical information about 336 Bomber Squadron.

The 336 Squadron with callsign “Olympos”, was established for the 1st time, on February 25, 1943 at the “Landing Ground 219″ airport near Cairo, Egypt. Its first name was 336 “Hellenic Royal Fighter Bomber Squadron”. The 336 Sqn was subordinated to the RAF 219 Combat Wing, and it was the second FB Squadron of the Hellenic Royal Air Force.

The squadron was initially equipped with 21 Hurricane-IIC aircraft, and had a total of 309 men, with 26 pilots.

On April 4 1943, it is transferred to the desert, at the LG121 airport, which was located near Sidi Barrani, Egypt, and it stayed there until January 1944. From April 11, 1943 the Squadron was full operational.

Read more »

More information click here:

We thank Charlie Trutch for his kind donation.

Trully rare patch ordered by Pratt & Whitney in only 50 pieces for the PEACE XENIA IV F-16 blk 52+ Advanced program between Hellenic Air Force, Lockheed Martin, Pratt & Whitney and USAF.

Exercise 6th WING – Ghedi A.B. X Servicing 2008 Italy

The exersice X-Servicing 2008 was conducted on April 17-24 at the base of Ghedi based with 6 ° Stormo. The purpose was mainly the cooperation between aviation in the conduct of complex international air operations. Totally 7 nations intervened, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Greece, Turkey and the USA under the supervision of the SHAPE Military Supreme Allied Command in Europe.
340 Squadron participated from Greece on behalf of Hellenic Air Force.
Source: aeronautica.difesa.it

Thanks to Asif Shamim (F-16.net Editorial staff & Patch Gallery Administration)