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
26-01-2025 Peter Terlouw contributed two more pictures of the CR 79-0076
26-01-2025 We added two nice pictures from Peter Terlouw. A Holloman Eagle on 26-8-83 and an Upper Heyford F-111E on 10-6-1988
20-01-2025 A great day on 9 September 1983. Two BAF F-16’s, two German Tornado’s and lots of Soesterberg Eagles. All photographed on the “Interlas” location.
20-01-2025 On 9 August 1984 brought some very nice visitors, for example this Lakenheath F-111F
19-01-2025 Summer 1984 brought this beautiful Spangdahlem F-4G to Soesterberg. Rick Versteeg was there.
19-01-2025 There are still photos missing from six 32nd F-15´s (77-0106, 79-0068, 79-0074, 79-0077, 79-0079, 80-0019). If you got some, please send them to info@reccereports.com
19-01-2025 And Harold van Eupen also contributed pictures of another missing F-15, the CR 80-0010
19-01-2025 Harold van Eupen contributed a picture of another missing F-15, the CR 79-0076
19-01-2025 We finally got a picture of the F-15 CR 79-0064
19-01-2025 We added more pictures to the 32nd F-15 galleries (79-0030,79-0032, 79-0034, 79-0039, 79-0045, 80-0027, 80-0060, 81-0045, 81-0049)
19-01-2025 We added pictures to the 32nd F-15 galleries (78-0546, 78-0547, 78-0550, 79-0004, 79-0016, 79-0018, 79-0020, 79-0021, 79-0023, 79-0024, 79-0027, 79-0028, 79-0029)
18-01-2025 We added pictures to the 32nd F-15 galleries (77-0100, 77-0102, 77-0103, 77-0104, 77-0109, 77-0110, 77-0111, 77-0115, 77-0124, 77-0132, 77-0157, 77-0158, 77-0163)
17-01-2025 We added pictures to the 32nd F-15 galleries (76-0127, 77-0078, 77-0085, 77-0086, 77-0087, 77-0091, 77-0092, 77-0093, 77-0097, 77-0098, 77-0099)
16-01-2025 We added more pictures to the Soesterberg F-4 galleries (74-1041, 74-1044, 74-1045, 74-1047, 74-1048, 74-1049, 74-1050, 74-1051, 74-1052, 74-1053, 74-1054, 74-1055)
16-01-2025 We added pictures to the Soesterberg F-4 galleries (69-0266, 69-0306, 69-7558, 74-0650, 74-0652, 74-0654, 74-0656, 74-0657, 74-0659, 74-0660, 74-0663, 74-0664)
14-01-2025 We added pictures to the Soesterberg F-4 galleries. (68-0321, 68-0401, 68-0404, 68-0408, 68-0440, 68-0441, 68-0444, 68-0445, 68-0534, 69-0237, 69-0263, 69-0264)
12-01-2026 We added pics to a few F-102 galleries (54-1363, 54-1370, 56-0977, 56-0985, 56-0987, 56-1002, 56-1014, 56-1029, 56-1042, 56-1244)
15-12-2025 Gerrit van de Veen contributed some nice German F-104 pictures. 24+49, 23+88, 26+16, 27+94, 28+11, 28+26, 25+14, 27+06, 27+17, 28+19, 24+89, 21+07
13-12-2025 We added older movements to the database. Especially about the F-86 era of the Royal Netherlands Air Force
12-12-2025 After a few inactive months due to holidays and works ‘under the hood’ of the site we are now “back in business” and will be updating the site frequently.
15-07-2025 Added photos to two F-100 pages. The 54-1872 and the 54-2015
15-07-2025 A page about the F-100 54-1939 was added with a photo
14-07-2025 The page about the F-15 CR 81-0065 was updated
13-07-2025 The page about the F-15 CR 81-0049 was updated
13-07-2025 On 21 May 2003 Swedish helicopters visited. Check out the pics from Harold van Eupen off base and Gerrit van de Veen on base
13-07-2025 A CR F-4E crashed near Terschelling on 29 August 1977. Read more about the accident that killed both crewmembers
07-07-2025 Soesterberg AB hosted an airshow on a rainy Saturday 19 June 1976. Read more about the airshow
07-07-2025 The F-4 CR 69-0266 crashed near Wittmund AB on 15 September 1975. Read about the accident
07-07-2025 On 2 May 1973 the commander of the Royal Netherlands Air Force was replaced. An impressive flyby was held that day
06-07-2025 The Market Garden Commemoration 2001 brought some civil and British visitors to Soesterberg. Check out the pictures Gerrit van de Veen took that day
04-07-2025 On a rainy friday 24 March 2000 a few nice visitors at Soesterberg. Gerrit van de Veen was there.
26-6-2025 A few photos from the Veterans Day Celebration on 17 September 1999 were added
24-6-2025 On 18 and 19 April 2000 298 Squadron celebrated its anniversary. Gerrit van de Veen shot some nice pics.
20-5-2025 On a sunny Thursday 18 September 2008 an event was held to commemorate Market Garden and to celebrate Veterans Days. Gerrit van de Veen was there and shot some nice photos
5-5-2025 A WR F-4 made an emergency landing at Soesterberg after a mid-air collission on 24 October 1974. Read about this accident
27-4-2025 On 21 June 1971 crashed the F-4E CR 68-0433. Read all about the accident
24-4-2025 On 3 June 1972 Soesterberg hosted an airshow
24-4-2025 We added a gallery about the F-15 CR 81-0048
21-4-2025 Thursday 13 January 1994 was a sad day when the last 32nd F-15’s left Soesterberg. Gerrit van de Veen captured the ceremony, the taxiing and take-off. Check out his nice report
20-4-2025 In June 1985 four A-10´s made a nightstop at Soesterberg. Henk de Ridder was there when they left on 18 June 1985
20-4-2025 Two green camouflaged A-10´s were at Soesterberg on 9 May 1979
20-4-2025 Two A-10’s visited on a rainy 23 May 1979. Check out the pictures
20-4-2025 Henk de Ridder shot two visiting Spangdahlem F-4s on 13 september 1984
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.