RAF Bentwaters Airshow August 1985
RAF Bentwaters, along with its neighbour RAF Woodbridge, was home to USAF A-10s based in the UK during the Cold War. During this time, airshows were held at the airfield, which attracted a far wider variety of aircraft than we see these days. You never appreciate what you have at the time and now looking at these photos I realise what a wonderful time was had at those 1980s era airshows. How quickly it all disappeared.
Page Index - Aircraft within this gallery -
Lockheed Starfighters F104G - 26+74 & 26+61 - BAC Jet Provost T.5 XW320 - Dassault Mirage V BD-10
Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XV168 - Panavia Tornado IDS 44+21 - McDonnell Douglas RF.4C - 69-382
BAe Hawk T.1 XX241 - Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1 XS711 - General Dynamics F-111E 68055 - Lockheed Starfighter CF104G 104773 - Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II 81-0990 - McDonnell Douglas F.4G Phantom Wild Weasel 69-7212 -Sikorsky HH-53C 69-5797 - Lockheed Hercules HC-130P 60220 - General Dynamics F-16A - 81-738
McDonnell Douglas F-15C 79054 - General Dynamics F-111E 68056 - Patrouille de France - Nord Noratlas 113/63 VN
Gloster Meteor T.7 WA669 - De Havilland Vampire T.11 XH304
Lockheed Starfighters F104G - 26+74 & 26+61 - BAC Jet Provost T.5 XW320 - Dassault Mirage V BD-10
Blackburn Buccaneer S2B XV168 - Panavia Tornado IDS 44+21 - McDonnell Douglas RF.4C - 69-382
BAe Hawk T.1 XX241 - Hawker Siddeley Dominie T.1 XS711 - General Dynamics F-111E 68055 - Lockheed Starfighter CF104G 104773 - Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II 81-0990 - McDonnell Douglas F.4G Phantom Wild Weasel 69-7212 -Sikorsky HH-53C 69-5797 - Lockheed Hercules HC-130P 60220 - General Dynamics F-16A - 81-738
McDonnell Douglas F-15C 79054 - General Dynamics F-111E 68056 - Patrouille de France - Nord Noratlas 113/63 VN
Gloster Meteor T.7 WA669 - De Havilland Vampire T.11 XH304