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On Tuesday 19th of May 2009 358 Search and Rescue Squadron (SAR) celebrated 25 years of life in Elefsis Air Base. 358 SAR Squadron flies with AB-205 and Super Puma helicopters and in the next few years is awaited that Hellenic Air Force is going to equip 358 SAR Squadron with 25-30 more modern helicopters in SAR and CSAR role. For the first quarter of century of 358 Squadron service a special patch was manufactured and demonstrated in the ceremony. You can view it underneath.

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The first four F-16 Block 52+ Advanced arrived last Friday afternoon 22 May 2009 at Araxos Air Base Greece. A simple ceremenoy took place there between the Hellenic Air Force personnel and the American pilots that brought them to Greece after a long journey. These aircrafts are a part of the total Peace Xenia IV program between the Hellenic Air Force and Lockheed Martin. At the end 20 single seated and 10 double seated F-16 Block 52+ Advanced will come to Araxos Air Base and will equip 335 Squadron. New aircrafts means new patches. First of new patches is the 335 Squadron ‘Tiger’ patch:

The Dornier Do-28 d2 of 355 Squadron celebrate 25 years of “Accident Free” duty in the Hellenic Air Force. For that reason a special patch was designed and manufactured as a limited edition.

Dornier Do-28 is another loyal servant of the Hellenic Air Force which has locked many thousand flight hours. The aircraft was designed in the mid-1960s as a light and cheap personnel and cargo transport. Has crew of two, Engine: 2 Lycoming IGSO-540-A1E, Wing Span: 15.55 m, Length: 11.40 m, Maximum Speed: 295 km/hour and Service Ceiling: 23,000 ft.

The social sensitivity of Hellenic Air Force is known especially with children. So students of 5th and 6th grade of primary school from the city of Agrinio had the opportunity to visit 117 Combat Wing and live the dream of being near to the Hellenic Air Force pilots and personnel. This visit among others had a symbolic character since Agrinio was the birth city of Major Kostas Karathanos (killed during service in 2004) and Lieutenant Kostas Alexandrakis (killed during service in 2000).

The children and their teachers were accompanied by relatives of the late pilots. The gate of 117 Combat Wing openned and welcomed the students early in the morning. A few moments later Read more »

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Let us remember together some specially painted aircrafts of the Hellenic Air Force starting with F-104 of 335 and 336 squadron during early nineties, painted as Tiger and Olympos:

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Enjoy the new decals sheet from Three Stars Decals for the anniversary F-16 of 330 squadron. Three Stars Decals is a new company that produces Decals for models of all known scales (1/72,1/48 etc) for Hellenic Air Force Aircrafts and esepecially Anniversary & Retired schemes. For more information about 330 squadron decals please click Here .

A lot of people are wondering who is the priest that stars in Hellenic Air Force official videos. Opinions differ. Some even argue that it is fake just for director’s reasons. Nevertheless this person is real. He is father Joseph (called Iosif-Ιωσήφ in greek). He was born in Peloponnisos in 1958 and his “in world” name is Christos Bairaktaris. Monk Joseph lives in the hideaway of st. Menas in Holy Mountain Athos (Agion Oros-Άγιον Όρος in greek). To learn more about Mount Athos click here.

The rise for this article are the videos that overflow youtube and other similar web-sites like the following:

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Under the following URL: http://www.haf.gr/el/media/wallpapers.asp

You will find Hellenic Air Force Wallpapers with calendar of the present month.

Enjoy April Wallpapers…

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On Sunday 05 April 2009, at Dekelia Air Base an award ceremony for three students of the third grade took place. Their essays about Air Force, distinguished in panhellenic contest, conducted in cooperation with the Hellenic Ministry of Education.

Students are:

* Vlazakis Alexander, grade 19.1.
* Poulakis Vasilios, grade 19.0.
* Michael Evangelou, grade 18.9.

The ceremony included the following activities:

* Flight familirization with T-6A aircraft.
* Awards and money prize.

Please view the following photos taken from Hellenic Air Force official web-site where some of T-6 Texan II patches are shown. Please also consider that instructor pilots wear patches from the previous aircrafts that used to fly… for instance Mirage 2000 and F-5.

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The Publications page under the following URL: http://www.airforce.gr/en/publications.htm which was under construction all that time has been updated with some Hellenic Air Force books covers that you will find for sure extremely interesting.