III/JG52-Freiherr V. Kaos a écrit : deux avions (XX885 et XX901) ont porté une petite silhouette d'un transport Iraquien (An-12?).
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C130
Elvington, United Kingdom
30-March-2008
Steven Mills
United Kingdom - Air Force Hawker Siddely Buccaneer S.2B
XX901 c/n B3-06-75, she is preserved by the Yorkshire Air Museum In her 1991 Gulf War 12 Squadron markings having flown 14 operational missions
and had destroyed a taxiing Iraqi transport aircraft ( a captured Kuwait AF C130 KAF322), with a laser guided bomb. Named the 'Flying Mermaid' (mehr von XX901)
Status:
Date:
27 FEB 1991
Type: Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules
Operator: Kuwait Air Force
Registration: KAF322
C/n / msn: 4949
First flight: 1983
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Airplane damage: Written off
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Shayka Mayhar AB (Iraq)
Phase: Standing (STD)
Nature: Military
Departure airport: -
Destination airport: -
Narrative:
During Iraq's invasion of Kuwait City in 1990, KAF322 was captured and flown to Iraq.
It received damage by a RAF Buccaneer during a coalition attack on Shayka Mayhar AB. It was cut-up and transported back to Kuwait at the end of the war and ended up being scrapped.
Sources:
» C130 Hercules Headquarters
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