At several small
belgian airfield you can find aircraft-enthousiasts which were able
to lay their hands on former belgian military aircraft.At the small
airfield of Francorchamps for example you can find a preserved
Mirage V and Thunderstreak and if you are in the neighbourhood of
Namur you can also find some very well preserved aircaft just
outside the airfield in front of the main building as a sort of
welcomesign.Not all aircraft are well taken care of like the one you
find along highway E17 (Antwerp-Kortrijk) at a cardump.
If you happen to be
near Liège try to find the industrial area Milmort.If you have found
it you will see a well restored CM170 high up on a hill in the
middle of a roundabout,just down the road is a company which does a
lot of work for the belgian defence and has a F16 in the
frontyard.Mind you if want to take a picture of this bird you have
to ask the guard nicely at the gate otherwise they will remove
you.At Hechtel they are restoring a Thunderflash but its identity is
unknown to me at this time.More aircraft can be found these are a
few examples.
In my quest to find
more belgian wrecks and relics I got lucky and here you can find
some additions to my last reoprt.First I went to Rocourt barracks
and had a nice chat with 1 of the guards and after explaining in my
best french what I wanted I was walking towards the preserved FA36
behind the gate.The same procedure I repeated at Bierset to see the
ALII and the BN2T plus Auster.Next stop was Saffraansberg to see the
FX53 and also here at the gate asked niely if it was possible to
photograph the aircraft which were standing outside the technical
school and once again it wasn't a problem at all.