Falcon Leap exercise - Market Garden commemoration, Eindhoven AB, Netherlands
C-130 aircraft drops paratroopers over Ginkel Heath to commemorate Operation Market Garden. |
From September 5 until September 16, 2022; the international exercise Falcon Leap took place. During this exercise, paratroopers and aircraft departed from Eindhoven Airbase (ICAO EHEH) in the Netherlands. The exercise Falcon Leap will end on September 17 with the commemoration of Operation Market Garden.
Falcon Leap
Exercise Falcon Leap is organized by 11 Airmobile Brigade (11e Luchtmobiele Brigade) of the Dutch Royal Netherlands Army. During the first week of the exercise cargo was dropped on parachutes above Marnewaard and locations in Belgium. The second week of exercises was dedicated to dropping paratroopers at various locations in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Operation Market Garden commemoration
Saturday, September 17th, the aircraft took part in the commemoration of Operation Market Garden. Paratroopers are then dropped on the Ginkel Heath near Ede. The Market Garden parajump is a commemoration for one of the largest parajumps of World War 2 near Arnhem (NL), in September 1944.
During Operation Market Garden, the allied forces attempted to dash from Belgium to the city of Arnhem, occupying various vital bridges over rivers and canals. Unfortunately, the 100 kilometers dash through the southern part of the Netherlands was not successful. And the British paras that were airdropped at the Ginkel Heath (Ginkelse Heide) with the task to capture the bridge of Arnhem, had to abandon the operation. This resulted in the 1970s movie “A bridge too far”.
During the both exercises, several military aircraft participated:
1 Dutch Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
1 British Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
1 Italian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
2 USAF Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules (from Texas Air National Guard, 1 C-130 remained on the ground)
1 Romanian Air Force Alenia C-27J Spartan
1 Polish Air Force Airbus Casa-295
1 Czech Air Force Mil Mi-17 Hip helicopter
Also some civil aircraft participated during the exercise:
Falcon Leap
Exercise Falcon Leap is organized by 11 Airmobile Brigade (11e Luchtmobiele Brigade) of the Dutch Royal Netherlands Army. During the first week of the exercise cargo was dropped on parachutes above Marnewaard and locations in Belgium. The second week of exercises was dedicated to dropping paratroopers at various locations in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Operation Market Garden commemoration
Saturday, September 17th, the aircraft took part in the commemoration of Operation Market Garden. Paratroopers are then dropped on the Ginkel Heath near Ede. The Market Garden parajump is a commemoration for one of the largest parajumps of World War 2 near Arnhem (NL), in September 1944.
During Operation Market Garden, the allied forces attempted to dash from Belgium to the city of Arnhem, occupying various vital bridges over rivers and canals. Unfortunately, the 100 kilometers dash through the southern part of the Netherlands was not successful. And the British paras that were airdropped at the Ginkel Heath (Ginkelse Heide) with the task to capture the bridge of Arnhem, had to abandon the operation. This resulted in the 1970s movie “A bridge too far”.
During the both exercises, several military aircraft participated:
1 Dutch Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
1 British Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
1 Italian Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules
2 USAF Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules (from Texas Air National Guard, 1 C-130 remained on the ground)
1 Romanian Air Force Alenia C-27J Spartan
1 Polish Air Force Airbus Casa-295
1 Czech Air Force Mil Mi-17 Hip helicopter
Also some civil aircraft participated during the exercise:
2 Shorts SC.7 Skyvans from Austria
1 PZL M.28 Skytruck from Germany
1 Douglas C-47 Dakota from the United Kingdom (with the former military registration KP220)
1 PZL M.28 Skytruck from Germany
1 Douglas C-47 Dakota from the United Kingdom (with the former military registration KP220)
VIDEOS
👉 Here are the reports on the Falcon Leap 2020 and Falcon Leap 2021
Report by Joris van Boven, Alex van Noiije
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