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Hello and welcome to Aviano Approach website. My site was born back in 2001 and I've created it for publishing my military aviation pictures, mainly taken as a spotter near the fence at Aviano Air Base, but also during airshows and base visits around the world. I'm also a military patches collector and scans of my entire collection can be found in the respective page. If you have comment or questions feel free to drop me a line by

e-mail. Enjoy my website!

Recent updates - 8 September, 2008
- 50th Anniversary of Fighterbomberwing 32 Lechfeld (Germany): On July 25/26th, 2008 Jagdbombergeschwader 32 (Fighterbomberwing 32) celebrate its 50th Anniversary since established in 1958 in Lechfeld. This is a report of the spotter's day that the base staff have organized for the aviation enthusiasts.
20 July, 2008
- NATO Tiger Meet 2008 - Ocean Tiger BAN Landivisiau (France): This year the annual competition Tiger Meet took place at the Base d'Aéronautique Navale (BAN) Landivisiau, lacated in Brittany, the France's most North-Western point. Due the vicinity of the Atlantic Ocean the key-word for this year was "Ocean Tiger". The Flotille 11F hosted the event.
23 March, 2008
- OIE 07 & 20 Years OCU - KeeBee Spotter's Day Kleine Brogel: on 2007 the Belgian Air Force F-16 Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) have celebrated its 20 years anniversary. Combined also with the Operational Integration Exercise (OIE 07) a spotting event was been organized.
- Aviano Visitors Gallery The following galleries are been added: B.707T/T - C-130 "Hercules" - Helicopters - [CLICK HERE]
10 February, 2008
- Operation Daedalus 2008 Innsbruck Airport: Austrian Air Force provide air cover for the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting held at Davos (Switzerland). Aircrafts presents were Saab 105Ö, PC-7 and PC-6.
- 51°St./7 ELT Squadron Exchange Istrana: three Su-22M-4R and one Su-22UM-3K landed at LIPS on 29 June, 2007. Until July 12th the Fitters operated together with 103° and 132° Gruppo flying operational training missions like DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) and CAS (Close Air Support), in support of integration of NATO standards in the Polish Air Force.
- Noble Midas 2007 Istrana: from 27 September to 12 October, 2007 five French Navy Super Etendard Modernisée strike aircraft belong to Flottille 17F were deployed to Istrana AB in support of NATO Exercise Noble Midas 2007. Noble Midas 07 was designed to test interoperability standards between participating navies and was set around a UN request for a response to a situation where a fictitious country is on the brink of Civil War, it was also one of the final certification phases for the NATO Response Force 10 (NRF 10).

All photographs on this website are © Marke555 and may not be used, copied or downloaded without an express consent. Althrought I'm quite flexible so if there is an image you would like to use, as long as it is for your own personal and non-commercial use, contact me and I'll normally be able to respond in a couple of days. Thanks for visiting my website!