Royal Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Registration: J-008.
Royal Air Force General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon just before departure for a training flight from Volkel airbase.
This photo was taken on 1 March 2023. The J-008 has been part of the 312 Squadron based at Volkel since December 2020. It is the last unit of the Royal Air Force still flying the F-16. In mid-2024, the last F-16's will be withdrawn from service and the KLu will fly only the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…