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In the almost 100 years of existence of Soesterberg Air Base, thousands of missions were flown from and to this air base. This website provides insight into a large part of these flight movements from 1951 to 2008.
Soesterberg Air Base was the cradle of military aviation in the Netherlands. In 1913, the Aviation Department of the Dutch army made its first flights from what was then still a moorland. During the Second World War, the German Luftwaffe occupied the field and during the Cold War a US Air Force squadron was stationed at the base to protect Dutch airspace against intruders. Due to defense cuts, the base was closed and defunct in November 2008.
Soesterberg Air Base was an important part of the military history of the Netherlands. We believe it is important for historical awareness that information about flight movements is preserved. You can request information about this in various ways via the search engine.
We realize that this site is not complete. If you have additions in the form of movements or corrections, please let us know. You can submit your information via info@reccereports.com.
Latest updates
30-9-2024 The German Phantoms from Martin de Boer on (22-8-83, 24-8-83 (2x F-4F)) got the wrong copyright info. It’s now corrected.
16-9-2024 On 13 October 1993 five Soesterberg Eagles left the 32nd for Otis ANGB. Gerrrit van de Veen was there to capture their departure. Check out his unique pictures.
16-9-2024 The year 2007 with 612 records was added to the database
16-9-2024 More very nice 70’s photos from Cor Vermolen are uploaded to the site (4-3-71, 11-10-77, 12-4-78, 19-4-78, 5-6-78, 10-7-78, 11-7-78, 26-9-78, 10-10-78, 17-10-78, 14-11-78, 17-6-82, 23-6-82 (3x FF F-15))
15-9-2024 A new set of great USAF photos from Cor Vermolen have been added (1-10-70, 11-1-71, 1-4-71 (2x RS F-4), 26-4-71, 29-7-74, 21-5-75, 11-10-77, 17-7-78, 8-2-79, 7-5-79, 10-8-82)
15-9-2024 1126 Movements from the year 2006 have been added
10-9-2024 Also the year 2005 with 927 movements is added to the database
9-9-2024 The year 2004 has 1034 movements and is inserted in the database.
9-9-2024 3 september 1980 was a great day at Soesterberg, but it was still missing in the database. We now added it and added a lot of nice pictures to it.
8-9-2024 German Phantoms were regular visitors in the 80’s. Martin de Boer contributed photos of three of them (22-8-83, 24-8-83 (2x F-4F))
8-9-2024 On 21 May 2003 seven Swedish Army Choppers visited Soesterberg. Harold van Eupen caught them on camera.
8-9-2024 921 records from the year 2003 are inserted in the database
8-9-2024 1059 movements from the year 2002 are now in the database.
6-9-2024 Another 12 awesome photos from Cor Vermolen have been added (10-7-70, 1-10-70, 5-3-71, 11-3-71, 5-5-71, 30-5-72, 5-6-72, 21-5-75 (2x LN and 1x AR F-4) 21-6-76, 9-6-78)
6-9-2024 924 Movements from year 2001 are added to the database
6-9-2024 We added a new great set of USAF oldies from Cor Vermolen (9-7-68, 24-2-70, 11-5-70, 16-10-70, 30-11-70, 26-4-71, 17-6-71 (2x C-118), 5-6-72, 23-2-78, 13-9-78)
5-9-2024 We entered another century and added 1075 records from the year 2000
4-9-2024 Another 833 records have been added. This time from the year 1999.
4-9-2024 A new set of beautiful USAF heavies from Cor Vermolen has been added (25-10-68, 28-10-68, 31-10-68, 28-11-68, 18-4-69, 4-9-69, 30-10-69, 18-2-70, 25-3-70, 19-11-70, 8-12-70, 15-4-71, 21-5-71)
4-9-2024 Gerrit van de Veen contributed 22 very nice photos (13-9-71, 11-9-81, 23-10-81, 5-3-82, 31-8-84, 31-5-90 (EG F-15’s)
3-9-2024 Not the most interesting period of Soesterberg AB, but we added 761 movements from 1998
3-9-2024 The movements from 1997 are also online now
2-9-2024 We added 19 more great pics from from Harold van Eupen (12-9-81 (2x), 29-6-84, 3-8-84, 9-8-84 (2x F-5E), 10-8-84, 1-9-84 (2x A-10A), 17-6-85 (4x A-10A), 19-8-85, 29-8-85, 7-2-89 (2x F-111F)
2-9-2024 Another 16 nice pics from Harold van Eupen have been added. (5-2-85, 1-5-85, 26-6-85 (2x G-91Y), 7-8-85, 14-8-85, 23-8-85 (4x F-104S), 1-7-88 (2x F-104S), 16-3-89, 10-11-1992 (3x EF-18))
1-9-2024 The year 1996 has been added to the database.
31-8-2024 A new great serie of pics from Harold van Eupen have been added. Go check them out:
21-6-82 (2x F-104G), 29-6-84, 22-8-84, 23-8-84, 1-9-84 (7x GAF/GNY), 14-12-84, 24-4-85 (2x F-4F))
30-8-2024 1580 Movements from 1995 have been added to the database
26-8-2024 25 nice eighties pictures from Harold van Eupen have been added to the database (12-9-81, 30-8-83 (4x), 13-6-84, 30-7-84, 22-8-84, 27-8-84 (2x), 30-8-84, 1-9-84, 12-9-84 (2x), 19-9-84 (2x), 18-4-85, 23-5-85, 24-7-85 (2x), 6-8-85, 14-8-85, 26-8-85 (3x))
25-8-2024 Added two pics of German Starfighters from Martin de Boer (21-6-82, 17-8-87)
25-8-2024 Added six very nice eighties pictures from Peter Terlouw. (21-5-84, 20-8-84, 15-8-85, 21-8-87 (2x), 21-10-87)
24-8-2024 Harold van Eupen contributed two pics of Battle Damage Repair planes of the 32nd.
The F-105 just after its arrival and the famous Michigan F-4C
24-8-2024 We added the 1994 movements to the database. 825 Movements have been added.
23-8-2024 Another series of photo from Gerrit van de Veen have been added. Mostly eighties (9-6-76, 12-7-78, 4-8-80, 14-11-80, 18-12-80, 11-9-81, 17-6-82, 26-11-82 (2x), 1-6-84 (2x), 6-8-84, 28-5-85, 11-9-85 (2x), 1-7-86, 15-1-87, 30-7-87 (2x))
22-8-2024 Pictures from the seventies from Gerrit van de Veen have also been added. Check them out.
(8-4-71, 20-5-71, 25-5-72 (2x), 1-4-75, 27-5-75, 4-12-75, 13-4-76. 15-7-76, 1-7-77, 18-4-78 (2x), 12-7-78, 27-4-79, 29-11-79)
20-8-2024 Some great pics of the sixties from Gerrit van de Veen have been added (22-7-66, 28-7-66, 10-7-68, 20-8-68, 1-7-69, 7-7-69)
20-8-2024 Another year has been added to the database. This time 1090 movements from 1993.
19-8-2024 To celebrate the Change of Command of the Royal Netherlands Air Force a static display and a flyby of approximately 110 aircraft was organized.
19-8-2024 On 15 February 1965 a Dutch Alouette II helikopter was damaged beyond repair just North of Soesterberg AB.
18-8-2024 Peter Terlouw contributed two nice pics from the eighties (6-8-85 and 27-1-88)
16-8-2024 On 3 June 1985 a F-16A from Nellis AFB made an emergency landing. We added a picture from Harold van Eupen.
16-8-2024 1351 Movements from 1992 have been added to the database
15-8-2024 A lot of nice pictures from Gerrit van de Veen have been added
(20-5-86 (2x), 4-6-87, 1-7-88 (35x), 10-3-89 (2x))
12-8-2024 We added 1125 Movements from the year 1991 to the database
12-8-2024 Added some very interesting RAF planes from the collection of Cor Vermolen
(15-7-71, 16-7-71, 20-7-71, 5-6-74 (2x), 10-6-74, 12-6-74, 16-10-74, 19-6-76, 24-7-79)
7-8-2024 Holidays are over, so updates are coming up. Today we started with adding 1523 movements from 1990
25-6-2024 Added some awesome Dutch planes pics from Cor Vermolen to the database
(3-7-68 (2x), 9-7-68, 10-7-68, 24-4-69, 5-9-69, 23-7-70, 31-7-70, 25-8-70, 27-8-70. 18-9-70, 24-9-70, 23-4-71, 26-4-71, 21-7-71, 20-8-71 (2x)
24-6-2024 In June 1978 a EB-57E visited Soesterberg for a overnight stop. Pics were added.
21-6-2024 Added some really nice Luftwaffe plane pics from Cor Vermolen to the database
(10-6-69, 21-8-69, 30-10-69, 13-2-70, 13-3-70, 2-10-70, 23-10-70, 5-3-71, 7-7-71, 31-10-78, 22-3-79 (2x), 31-5-79 en 19-5-83)
20-6-2024 Added pictures from different photographers to the database
(1-7-63, 2-11-64, 28-6-65, 24-2-70(2x), 10-3-70(10x), 23-6-70, 22-9-70, 6-5-71, 1-10-71, 14-10-71, 24-6-75, 19-10-78, 28-1-85)
17-06-2024 Added a new series of pictures from Cor Vermolen to the database
(11-6-70, 23-6-70, 5-3-71, 3-6-72, 2-7-73, 6-11-74, 3-10-77, 19-4-78, 19-4-79, 14-6-82)
16-06-2024 Added a new series of pictures from Cor Vermolen to the database
(5-2-70, 27-4-71, 17-6-71, 21-6-1971, 16-7-71, 21-12-77, 15-6-78, 10-6-82, 8-9-82, 24-1-1984)