Tsuiki Airshow 2017

Posted in 2017

... the country. And this was clearly the case during the airshow day. airshows/17_tsuiki/airground airshows/17_tsuiki/airground2 airshows/17_tsuiki/airground3 airshows/17_tsuiki/so JGSDF AH-64 Apache ...

JASDF 60th Anniversary

Posted in Travel

... ce to spot some autumn Colors. onbase/14_jasdf60th/so1 Further South and reached from Gifu with another long, but easy rive another interesting airbase not to be missed was Akeno, home of several JG ...

Tsuiki Airshow

Posted in 2014

... great, as this type gets quite rare these days in Japan. JGSDF helicopters present were a UH-1 and OH-1, and from Kanoya the JMSDF provided a P-3C (or P-3CJ as it was applied on the sign) Orion. airshows/14_tsuiki/static ...

Gifu Airshow

Posted in 2014

... aircraft on „the other side of the fence“ were 3 helicopters of the the JGSDF (UH-60, AH-64D, OH-1), the (X)C-2, T-400, the still omni-present RF-4E Phantom II and a U-125 Flightchecker as well as the ...

Nyutabaru Air Festa 2012

Posted in 2012

... 16 airshows/12_nyuta/jgsdf airshows/12_nyuta/fly-in The Saturday before the actual showday hosted kind of a families day with a limited number of displays by the local acts - the important ones: air-gro ...

Tsuiki Airshow

Posted in 2010

... o airshows/10_tsuiki/open The actual flying program started with a SAR demo of U-125 and UH-60, followed by a JGSDF AH-64D Apache, which was very high on my wish list. Unfortunately the sun stayed behi ...

Japan December 2009

Posted in Travel

... ther was still very good and many of locals were staying around, I also decided to do so in the hope of some nice arriving aircraft. JGSDF did, but approached the airfield directly and were not photograph ...

Nyutabaru Airshow

Posted in 2009

... to the usual fleet of JSADF, JMSDF and JGSDF aircraft and helicopters. special/09_japan2/46 special/09_japan2/47 special/09_japan2/48 special/09_japan2/50 But already before jet sound could b ...

Tsuiki Airshow

Posted in 2009

... an UH-60J. The sun was still out and finally provided some sunny shots of the darkblue helicopter, that I have been after for quite a long time now. The same goes for the JGSDF AH-1S Cobra, which followed ...

Japan March 2009

Posted in Travel

... to stop. This small JGSDF field is located in a housing area at Sendai and thus very hard to find. During our 30min stay in the late afternoon we saw only one OH-6 circling around, but coming in too high fo ...

Japan 2008 Trip

Posted in Travel

... the local T-4s and P-3s as well as some of the visitors for the airshow on Sunday. other local military traffic and air show arrivals (YS-11, C-1, JGSDF CH-47, T-4) ---- ---- ---- ...

Aircraft Spotting in Japan

Posted in Travel

... ions to photograph the colourful camouflaged helicopters of the JGSDF. After the happenings the day before that was not very beneficial for our spirit, but nevertheless we took some photos as the possi ...