Location: KDH / Kandahar, Afghanistan
Date: February - June 2006
More images of aircraft from my time in Afghanistan.
XV177 departing with a Biggles lookalike in the bubble.
USAF C-130H 80-0321 of the Georgia Air Guard.
Occasionally, a pair of A-10s deployed from Bagram. This is 78-0701/AK.
Silk Air Il-76 4K-AZ55 being loaded with Canadian Army equipment.
This smart DC-8 - 9G-LIL - arrived unexpectedly as I waited to leave for Kabul.
EX-100 is an Il-76 of Click Airways.
Harrier GR7A ZD461/51A taxying past Hercules XV303.
Another Blackwater Aviation aircraft, Metro III N955BW.
An-32 340 of the Afghan Air Force.
An-32 340 of the Afghan Air Force.
US Army C-12 94-0324 departing Kandahar.
Hercules C3A XV303
Supporting the Romanian effort was this C-130B 5927.
Another 'new' RAF Hercules, ZH872
'Welcome to Hell' would be more appropriate.
A smart and clean An-12, EX-031.
One of the few short Hercules' in theatre was XV295.
Snapped from inside a Chinook; Australian Hercules A97-447.
This all-white 727 freighter, HZ-SNA, worked for DHL.
USAF C-17 03-3120 taking off.
VIP transports were quite common. This is US Army UC-35A 97-0105.
Harrier GR7A ZD405/37A returning to base.
Il-76 ER-IBF of Jetline International.
99-0168 - another USAF C-17.
This Cessna Citation N405PC is a UN VIP aircraft.
HZ-SNA arriving again on another DHL charter.
This Fokker 100 - PK-RGE - replaced the Eastern Skyjets DC-9 towards the end of my tour.
Another anonymous An-12. This is EX-029.
