2007 07 07 Meeting de l'air Evreux

In 2007, Evreux was one of the airbases to organize on July 8th a Meeting de l'air. The Evreux airshow would have become a footnote in the history of French airshows, but the organisers were able to attract the USAF ‘Thunderbirds’ to their field. The USAF demoteam ‘the Thunderbirds’ spent a few weeks in Europe.
The static show demonstrated 2 lines with static aircraft, showing fighters like Mirages, F-16’s, A-10’s, Rafales, Typhoon. Several transport aircraft like the C-160, C-130 and C-17 were parked on the public part.
The flightline of the show was located on the parallel runway, close to the public. You could see the flight preparations from nearby of the stuntteams: the Breitling Jet team, Patrouille de France, Patrulla Aguila, Royal Jordanian Falcons and the Thunderbirds. Also the solo aircraft like F-16, Mirage 2000, Fouga Magister were very close.

I attended the well organised spottersday on the 7the. Unfortunately the Thunderbirds and the Patrulla Aguila didn't flew that day. But the weather was good compared to the massive rainshowers on the showday which even let to some cancellations like the Belgian F-16 and Fouga Magister.
F-16C  USAF  Thunderbirds
MS-733  Epopee de l'industrie et de l'aeronautique  F-AZKN
C-17A  USAF  02-1106
F-16AM  Netherlands Air Force  J-018
Mirage 2000C  French Air Force  12-YT/124
A-10A  USAF  81-0945/SP
SA.341M  French Army  4071/BOH
CM.170R  Les Mohicans du Fouga  F-AZZE
Harrier GR9  Royal Air Force  ZG480/70
CM.170R  Belgian Air Force  MT35
Alpha Jet E  French Air Force  Patrouille de France
C-160NG  French Air Force  64-GN/R214, 64-GM/R213
P-51D  Société de Developpement et de promotion de l'aviation  F-AZSB
F-16AM  Netherlands Air Force  J-055
Mirage 2000C  French Air Force  5-OC/36
CM.170R  Belgian Air Force  MT35
F-16AM  Belgian Air Force  FA-131
CM.170R  Belgian Air Force  MT35

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