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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.
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19-4-2025 Rick Versteeg photographed a Belgian CM-170 on the Soesterberg platform on 29 March 1990.
19-4-2025 Two more RS Phantoms on 3 April 1985. The 67-343 and 68-467
19-4-2025 Two very nice Ramstein F-4E’s visited on Monday 19 September 1983. The 68-372 and the 68-480 with sharkmouth
18-4-2025 On 13 September 1983 a green camouflaged A-10 visited Soesterberg
18-4-2025 On Thursday 27 June 1985 two German Navy F-104’s visited Soesterberg. Henk de Ridder was there when they left home to Eggebek, Germany. Check out the pictures (21+07, 26+81)
18-4-2025 In the seventies Snowblower Rinus was often necessary to clean the run- and taxiways. It deserves a place in the database. Here seen on 2 February 1979
18-3-2025 In november 2001 F-16’s from Twente AB stayed for one week at Soesterberg. On Monday the 26th they Nightflying exercise. Gerrit van de Veen photographed them departuring just before sunset
18-3-2025 A French Mirage 2000 visited for the 1988 Airshow. Gerrit van de Veen provided this photo’s
18-3-2025 Two RAF Tornado’s visited on 23 April 1987. (ZA474 and ZA491)
18-3-2025 The Dutch F-16 J-215 was performing at the 1984 Soesterberg airshow. Gerrit van de Veen photographed it taxiing before the show
18-3-2025 On 29 December 1983 six Dutch F-16’s arrived. Three of them stayed until the next year. Gerrit van de Veen caught one of them on the visitor platform
18-3-2025 Lots of RNLAF F-16’s on 3 May 1982. Check out the photo’s
18-3-2025 Since 1985 a former Georgia ANG F-105 was used as Battle Damage Repair Training Aircraft. Gerrit van de Veen saw it on Monday 2 April 1990
18-3-2025 Two Danish Starfighters visited on Tuesday 15 May 1979. Check out the pictures. (R-851 and RT-684)
18-3-2025 Two Spangdahlem Phantoms from the 480th TFS visited on 30 August 1983. Both were former 32nd F-4’s (SP-74-044, SP-74-659)
18-3-2025 The summer of 1978 brought six different Germany Navy F-104G’s to Soesterberg. We got them all on photo. (21+16, 22+97, 23+17, 26+55, 26+57, 26+82)
17-3-2025 On 12 July 1976 two German F-4F´s visited (37+31 and 38+27)
17-3-2025 Three Dutch NF-5B´s were present on 18 June 1976 for the airshow (K-4026, K-4027, K-4030)
17-3-2025 Robert de Jong contributed some pics from 1976. Check them out (15-3-76, 23-3-76, 15-4-76, 23-4-76, 2-6-76, 17-6-76, 4-11-76, 30-12-76)
14-3-2025 Summer 1975 Italian F-104’s from Rimini were on a squadron exchange with the 32nd. See pictures of two of them (5-07 and 5-34)
13-3-2025 Three RAF Tornados from 31 Sqn leave for Waddington after a short deployment. Henk de Ridder was there.
13-3-2025 Gerrit van de Veen was at Soesterberg on Saturday 6 May 1995 for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands. Check out some of his photos.
10-3-2025 We now got 87.159 movements and 6.240 photos in the database. But we are still looking for new material. So if you’ve got missing movements and/or photos please send them to us.
10-3-2025 We update the database! We corrected a lot of items and added more than 1800 movements from 3 different sources.
21-2-2025 On 4 July 1988 Henk de Ridder caught two more F-104s at the famous Interlas spot (5-14 and 5-33)
21-2-2025 Two more Italians stayed over for the night on 6 May 1986 (3-42 and 3-43)
21-2-2025 Two Starfighters captured by Henk de Ridder on the visitor platform on 7 August 1980 (3-36 and 3-50)
21-2-2025 On 19 August 1980 four F-104s took a strange track to the runway. Luckily Henk de Ridder was on the right spot (36-13, 36-16, 36-30 and 36-50)
21-2-2025 Today Italian Starfighters day. Four from 51 Stormo visited on 8 April 1976 (51-33, 51-34, 51-35 and 51-42)
20-2-2025 On Thursday 6 October an event was organized for Prins Bernard’s farewell as pilot. Gerrit van de Veen was there and contributed pictures
20-2-2025 F-16 J-255 from 323 Sqn. visited on 13 July 1987
20-2-2025 On 30 June 1987 six Leeuwarden F-16’s visited. Gerrit van de Veen took pictures of four of them
20-2-2025 We added unique pictures Gerrit van de Veen took on 13 January 1987 from the Soesterberg tower of 32nd Eagles in the show. (79-032 and the 80-027)
19-2-2025 And a few more pics from 1976 (Dutch F-104, Spitfire, US Army CH-47, Luftwaffe Do-28 and a C-9 Nightingale)
19-2-2025 Two Canadian F-104’s from Robert de Jong (104653 and 104821)
19-2-2025 And three more F-4’s from 1977 and 1978 (RS 74-652, TJ 64-911, WR 66-768)
19-2-2025 Robert de Jong contributed a some USAFE F-4’s that visited in 1976 (LN 65-753, RS 68-490, TJ 64-905, WR 66-261)
19-2-2025 Pictures from German F-4’s that visited in the summer of 76 were added (37+31, 38+67)
19-2-2025 We added some German F-104’s from Robert de Jong (22+44, 24+27, 27+19, 28+13)
19-2-2025 On 19 October 1976 the first Bitburg F-15 visited. Robert de Jong was there.
19-2-2025 Just before switching to the F-15, Bitburg Phantoms visited in 1976 (68-375, 68-405, 69-212, 69-281, 69-241)
19-2-2025 In April 1976 a NC-130A was temporarily stationed at Soesterberg. Robert de Jong photographed it on its arrival day
19-2-2025 A few pictures of visiting Sabreliners were added (0-10653, 24462, 24470)
19-2-2025 Alconbury RF-4C Phantoms visited every now and then in the seventies. Robert de Jong contributed pictures of a few of them (65-939, 66-422, 66-423, 66-424 and 66-425)
10-02-2025 Two USAF C-130’s pictures from Gerrit van de Veen were added. The 10947 on 8 February 1979 and the 10949 on 2 April 1987
10-02-2025 On Monday 20 November 1978 six Eagles were delivered for the 32nd. Check out the pictures
10-02-2025 Two Norwegian Starfighters on 25 October 1978. Gerrit van de Veen contributed a picture of one of them
10-02-2025 Two Norwegian F-5’s visited on 18 October 1978. The 165 and the 214
10-02-2025 A German G.91T visited on 22 September 1990. Gerrit van de Veen’s picture was added
10-02-2025 On 3 May 1982 F-16’s from Leeuwarden AB left after a weekend-stop. We added some nice pictures of the Dutch vipers on that day
09-02-2025 A Henk de Ridder photo of an impressive Lakenheath F-111F on the visitors platform was added
09-02-2025 Two Tornado’s from RAF Laarbruch visited on 23 April 1987. Check out the pictures (ZA474 and the ZA491)
09-02-2025 Alconbury A-10’s were not seen that often. However four of them visited on 23 Febuari 1990. Rick Versteeg caught two of them
09-02-2025 On 17 June 1986 four Bitburg Eagles visited. We added a picture from Rick Versteeg from one them
09-02-2025 Added two pictures from Harold van Eupen from the CR 79-039 Eagle on a sunny February 7 1989
27-01-2025 In June 1984 Langley Eagles were stationed at Soesteberg for a few weeks. Gerrit van de Veen captured two of them on 13 June. The FF 81-021 and the FF 81-026
27-01-2025 25 November 1981; The weather was bad, but the visitors were very nice. Check out the pictures Gerrit van de Veen took this day.
27-01-2025 Belgian Alpha Jets were regular visitors in the eighties. The AT-28 visited on 11 September.
27-01-2025 Records show that only two ‘AS’ RF-4C’s ever visited Soesterberg. Gerrit van de Veen was there on 20 October 1971 to capture one of them.
27-01-2025 Henk de Ridder witnessed the CR 74-650 F-4E with bomb load beeing towed to the static for the open house in 1976.
27-01-2025 An a sunny November day in 1984 Rick Versteeeg captured this visiting USAF C-130.
27-01-2025 Back to 1971 with beautiful pictures from Cor Vermolen from Dutch T-birds. (M-44 and M-103)
19-01-2025 A photo from Rick Versteeg from a visiting Harrier on 4 March 1991 was added
19-01-2025 Another RAF Phantom that was on deployment with the 32nd in 1985 was added
19-01-2025 A photo is added from one out of four Bitburg Eagles that visited on 17 June 1986
19-01-2025 Added another beautiful picture from a Soesterberg Phantom.
19-01-2025 On Sunday 21 August 1994 a C-5A Galaxy visited. Henk de Ridder was there to capture this special moment.
19-01-2025 “Coronet Apache” brought Holloman Eagles to Soesterberg for a moment. Rick Versteeg caught the 77-151 during one of its missions.
19-01-2025 A number of Dutch NF-5’s from Twente AB were stationed at Soesterberg for a few days.
The freshly painted K-3001 was one of them.
19-01-2025 On 12 April 1983 four Luftwaffe F-4F’s from Neuburg visited. This is great picture from Rick Versteeg from one of them on the visitor platform.
19-01-2025 The week started with a whole lot of visitors. Take a look at the pictures from 16 June 1975.
12-01-2025 In July 1985 Phantoms from RAF Wildenrath were on rotation with the 32nd. Check out one of them (the XV462 U)
12-01-2025 On 18 May 1990 four IS Eagles visited. Check out one of them, the 80-043.
12-01-2025 In the early nineties C-23 Sherpa’s visited on almost daily base. This is the ‘Ramstein’ on a sunny 26 June 1990
12-01-2025 Five more C-130’s from the seventees were added (21-4-1970, 18-4-1973, 26-7-1973, 1-4-75, 20-10-77)
09-01-2025 Added a picture from Rick Versteeg of a C-130 in green camouflage scheme that visited on 29 March 1990
09-01-2025 In November 2001 twelve Dutch Vipers from Twente AB were stationed at Soesterberg. Henk de Ridder was present the sunny day they left home. Check out his great pictures.
05-01-2025 In the seventees USAF C-130’s were regular visitors. Five photos have been added (13-8-69, 27-4-71, 26-7-73, 10-6-74 and 9-8-1974)
05-01-2025 We added pictures of the F-15 CR-81-0047
05-01-2025 The 32nd lost its first F-4 on 14 November 1969. We added the information to the Accidents section.
05-01-2025 Four F-15 Eagle pictures have been added (28-3-80, 19-11-81 (1), 19-11-81 (2), 10-6-92)
04-01-2025 We added five more beautiful photos (16-5-80, 26-1-81, 16-11-83, 6-3-87 and 20-8-90)
03-01-2025 Three eighties black and white pictures from Rick Versteeg have been added (11-8-82, 13-8-82, 29-4-83)
02-01-2025 Henk de Ridder photographed four visiting German F-4Fs in the eighties (37+63, 37+99, 37+35, 38+03)
01-01-2025 We added pictures of the F-15 CR 81-0046
01-01-2025 Happy New Year to all of you visiting this website
31-12-2024 Pictures of the F-15 CR 81-0045 have been added
31-12-2024 Added a photo of the F-15 CR 81-0027
31-12-2024 On 2 August 1966 a F-102A that was on alert was destroyed during a fire in the Zulu hangar.
30-12-2024 Two pics of the Eagle CR 80-0060 have been added.
30-12-2024 On 22 August 1980 two uncoded Eagles left for Bitburg AB after being with the 32nd for only a few weeks.
30-12-2024 Four pics from Rick Versteeg have been added (12-10-82, 15-8-83, 27-5-86, 24-8-90)
29-12-2024 In December 1986 Lightnings from RAF Binbrook were temporarily stationed at Soesterberg. Rick Versteeg took this picture on 3 December 1986
29-12-2024 In the first week of July 1985 Phantoms from WIldenrath were deployed at Soesterberg. Robert de Jong provided some nice pics of them (XV424, XV435, XV468 and XV462)
24-12-2024 Wednesday 28 August 1985 brought two Seymour-Johnson F-4’s. Henk de Ridder was there.
(SJ 74-637 and SJ 74-665)
23-12-2024 Another two pictures from Rick Versteeg. The SAR Al.III on 28-5-90 and a German RF-4E on 30-8-82.
22-12-2024 Two pictures from Rick Versteeg have been added. Two nive visitors. An ANG Hercules on 13-5-80 and a US Navy HH-1K on 17-4-86
21-12-2024 Snow at Soesterberg and German F-4’s visiting. Henk de Ridder was there on 8 February 1979. (37+84 and 38+00)
20-12-2024 Hans Ragay was present on 16 September 1992 and caught some Soesterberg Eagles and five Spangdahlem F-16’s.
19-12-2024 Hahn F-16’s were regular visitors in the eighties. Henk de Ridder captured two visiting Vipers on the visitor platform on 23 July 1984.
18-12-2024 14 June 1990 marked the 45th anniversary of 298 Sqn. Gerrit van de Veen was there to photograph the foreign visitors.
17-12-2024 USAF visitors on seven beautiful pictures from Rick Versteeg have been added (29-8-83, 25-4-84, 14-5-84, 29-6-84, 30-7-84, 31-8-84, 24-8-90)
16-12-2024 Four awesome F-15 pics from Rick Versteeg have been added. (16-8-82, 20-6-84, 8-8-85 and 12-3-87)
5-12-2024 24 August 1990 brought four Ramstein F-16’s. Henk de Ridder caught two of them (85-450 and 85-546)
5-12-2024 On 21 June 1984 four EG Eagles visited and three of them were parked at the famous ‘Interlas’ location (75-037, 76-015, 76-126)
5-12-2024 Three more pictures of the Alabama ANG F-4D that visited on 29 August 1985 have been added
4-12-2024 Two F-4D’s visited on 26 September 1975. One from Woodbridge and one from Spangdahlem. Together with a F-104G from the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
4-12-2024 Thursday 21 June 1984 brought four Spangdahlem F-4’s to Soesterberg. Check out the pictures.
4-12-2024 RF-4C’s from Alconbury and Zweibrücken were regular visitors. We added 7 pictures of them (22-7-74, 22-7-75 (2x), 12-4-76, 17-7-78 (2x), 14-8-86)
4-12-2024 On 31 May 1990 twelve Eglin Eagles arrived. Gerrit van de Veen was there and captured them all.
4-12-2024 After a two day delay 10 Langley F-15’s arrived on Friday 1 June 1984 for operation Coronet Hawk. Gerrit van de Veen was there to catch them on picture.
4-12-2024 Six pictures from Rick Versteeg have been added (9-5-79, 27-3-81, 9-7-81, 14-10-82, 12-4-83, 18-5-90)