Bahamas Partenavia P.68C Victor

Not sure if this has been posted before, but here’s a Bahamas Partenavia P.68C Victor with their new roundel. Wish they made a model of this one.

Guinea Bissau C-47

A rare example of an aircraft rivaling, if not exceeding, the Alouette III in terms of usage.

Indonesian Navy

Tons of great Indonesian Navy images:

http://www.indoflyer.net/forum/tm.asp?m=326482&mpage=1&key=&#326482

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Malta L-39. Did I missed something?
For more nive pictures see here:
http://picasaweb.google.ru/duke6.kirill/200902#5375352161654647154

What the %*&)??? It’s a Maltese cross, but what is it doing on an L-39? I don’t think it’s military, but if it is, I don’t have a clue. I’ll do some digging.

Thought So

It’s a fake, gkozak !

It’s a french Alouette from Escadron d’Hélicoptères 1/67 “Parisis”, based at Villacoublay near Paris. You can see the Escadron patche on the sliding door (a black round with a white “Pegase”). You can also see the “Armée de l’Air” logo on the fin !

The roundel was roughly added on the photo !

I thought so. It was passed on to me, but I was suspicious, so I went to the site where it came from, xairforces.com. Here are a few other gems I found.

Burundi Dauphin 2

It’s not an Alouette III, but…

Equatorial Guinea MiG-17s

Great to finally see a picture of them 😮

The Equatorial Guinean Alouettes had a very particular use. Delivered to Africa’s worst and least known madman Macias Nguema both of them crashed shortly after they were received. Strangely both at that time had rivals of Nguema on board (this comes from a reliable source). Not the cheapest way of killing opponents. This guy was on drugs so everything’s possible. If I remember correctly he got them for free or at least very cheap suring a French attempt to gain influence there. In the end he opted for Cuba and the Soviet Union.

There are reports EG later on received few MiG-17s but “Africa’s Ausschwitz” as one diplomat called was so extremely degenerated by the late 1970s I doubt they could have operated such toys, even with foreign help.

Yes, I have also heard of two MiG-17s, natural metal, with flags on their fins and red bort numbers on their noses. Would love to get pictures of them. If I had those images and something from Bhutan, I could die happy.

Where Did You Find Them?

Seeing you bringing that issue up once again, I have no wonder how you’re deeply attached to minor, exotic air arms like Bhutanese one. :diablo:

Why don’t you ask around some of webmasters running Indian AF themed websites on internet? That should be the fastest way to get anything that is Bhutanese. since they’re heavily dependent on India militarily.

Who knows? they’d dig up some interesting article published in Indian AF magazine, blazing the Indian AF feat of donating a second-hand Do-228 to the Kingdom of Bhutan.:dev2:

Nepalese Y-5 biplane, IL-14 Crate, Mi-4P Hound

One of Percival C.66 Pembrokes formerly with ZAF turned into scrap metal at Livingston IAP

Nigerian L-29 Delfin, Piaggio P-149D

Ugandan Police Air Wing (Westland Scout)

Egyptian Alpha Jet MS.2, Yak-11

Where in the heck did you find these? The Nepalese images and the Zambian Pembroke are especially wonderful. The Uganda Scout is fantastic, too. I just wish the Pembroke were in better shape!

Two Peruvian Queen Airs and a Cambodian Super King Air.