RAF Bentwaters Airshow August 1985
RAF Bentwaters, along with its neighbour RAF Woodbridge, was home to USAF A10s that were 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