PoAF 57th Aniversary

In 2009 Portuguese Air Force celebrated its 57^th anniversary with an awesome airshow. Taking place at Air base Nº1 located at Sintra, the airshow lasted the entire afternoon with demonstrations from a great variety of military and civilian aircraft. Here is summary of some of the aircraft present:

Lockheed Martin F-16 A Fighting Falcon                            Lockheed Martin F-16 B Fighting Falcon

Lockheed P-3 C+ Orion                                                          Lockheed C-130 E Hercules

Lockheed C-130 H Hercules                                                  Agusta-Westland EH-101 Merlin

Aerospacial Alouette III                                                         Dassault Falcon 50

Casa C-212 Aviocar                                                                 Casa C-295 M Persuador

DeHavilland Chipmunk                                                          Yakolev Yak-52

Bleriot                                                                                       Dornier Do-27

Boeing Stearman                                                                    Dassault AlfaJet

Westland Lynx                                                                        Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon

The airshow took place under some challenging meteorological conditions, with very intense cloud cover which, unfortunately, resulted in some ruined photographs due to improper exposure settings. Here are some of the moments captured by the Panasonic Lumix FZ28.

Thank you for your visit,
Paulo Antunes


Lockheed C-130H-30 Hercules

CASA C-212 Aviocar

Lockheed C-130H Hercules

Aerospacial Alouette III

Lockheed P-3 Orion

Dornier Do-27

Agusta-Westland EH-101 Merlin

Bleriot

De havilland Chipmunk

Yakolev Yak-52

Westland Lynx

Eurofighter EF-2000 Typhoon

Boeing BT-17 Stearman

Dassault AlfaJet