Balkan Rats Provisional Sq. (see badge on the fin) taking off for a training mission; after the end of the war in Kosovo the Aviano based fighter bombers flew no more with air to ground weapons.
154th Sq./6th Wing. Formation landing with sistership MM.55006/6-15. Note the large number “302” on the fin, as it was displayed at the “Salon de Paris” earlier that year.
VMA(AW)-224. Coming back from a mission over Bosnia. At the time the F/A-18D was still equipped with dumb bombs, waiting for the necessary software upgrade.
Balkan Rats Provisional Sq. (see badge on the fin) taken on landing still carrying all the armament (two large Laser Guided Bombs and two Sidewinders); no target found, as the end of the war in Kosovo was near.
22nd Gr./51st Stormo; taken on landing after the display during the 50th Anniversary of the 51st Stormo. Only half of the aircraft is painted in special colours, the other side being painted in the usual grey/green camo.
Single seat light attack version of the trainer. Only this prototype of “Veltro 2” was built. Arriving to conduct air to ground trials over the then Maniago Range.
47th TFS/AFRES. Landing with long range fuel tanks at the end of the long flight from the States. It arrived with other 11 A-10s to fly Deny Flight missions over Bosnia.