After spending more than a year at Eindhoven doing nothing this 3th RNLAF DC-10 flew to Rome for maintenance and a much needed paint job. On May 30th the aircraft returned to its home base in the now familiar grey paint scheme.
Visited Eindhoven as support aircraft for the Red Arrows. This same Hercules was deliberately destroyed after making an emergency landing in the southern part of Irak early February 2007.