Let me continue this trip down Memory Lane with my final pictures of 1997 at Schiphol... There's a lot more for coming years and at other airports, so when I have time, I will start new topics with old pictures...
In 1997, British Airways still had the Landor colourscheme and was still flying the good old B737-200's. Note the additional "Manchester" titles.
Balkan Air still existed and was flying Soviet metal to Schiphol like the Tu154.
A resident for years was this B727 of LARMAG.
The Police operated two AS350's next to the Bo105's
Air UK was the second largest operator after KLM at Schiphol, flying with Fokker 50's, 100's and BAe146's.
Lithuanian Airlines introduced a new livery which is shown here on a Yak 42.
ORBI from Georgia was also sending the Tu134 to Schiphol
NFD was the early name of what later was to become Eurowings. They operated feeder flights from Germany for the KLM.
Royal from Canada operated regular charter flights with L1011's.
South African still flew to Schiphol, using the great B747SP!
The DC-4 ZS-NUR became PH-DDS and Schiphol-East was the scene to see two DC-4's. The white/blue one was bought to act as a source for spares for the PH-DDS. Oh, what great planes!
And, of course, 1997 was the year Bill Clinton visited the Netherlands, bringing the whole flying circus of HMX-1. Here we can see one VH-3 about to land after a training flight on a warm May evening. They just did a training flight to the Malieveld in Den Haag. Note the sunset in the nose of this great helicopter!
Well, hope you liked them and hope to please you with more old pictures in other topics soon!
Cheers!
