Leading from the front

Giovanni Colla profiles NATO’s final Tactical Leadership Programme flying course of 2016, held at Albacete, Spain. TACTICAL LEADERSHIP PROGRAMME F/A-18A+ C.15-87 from Ala 46 at Gando is one of the 24 surplus US Navy Hornets delivered to Spain in 1999 and locally referred to as F/A-18CX. It served with the USN as BuNo 161950. AIRCRAFT FROM the UK, Poland, Italy, Belgium and France joined fighters from host nation Spain at the last flying course of the 2016 Tactical Leadership Programme