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    Airframe Family: Dornier Alpha Jet
    Latest Model:Alpha Jet A
    Last Military Serial:15221 FAPo
    Construction Number:0066
    Compressed ID:Dornier Alpha Jet A sn 15221 FAPo c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Beja Air Base, Beja, Beja

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1978

    Constructed as an Alpha Jet A.

    Circa 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n 40+66.

    By 1986

    Transferred to JBG-44, Beja, Portugal.
    Training unit based in Portugal to take advantage of better weather conditions.

    1994

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Forca Aerea Portuguesa with s/n 15221.

    1994

    Transferred to Esq103, Beja.

    7 July 2002


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NATO Tiger Meet, Beja AB, Portugal

    20 July 2002


    Photographer: robert roggeman
    Notes: EBBL.FAP.

    22 October 2003

    Collided with Alphajet 15234 during training, returned to Beja AB and made an emergency landing. Pilot of 15234 ejected satisfactorily and aircraft crashed.

    July 2008

    Assigned to Beja Air Base, Beja, Beja for storage.

    By 12 February 2014

    Declared surplus.
    Offered for sale by the Portuguese Government - subject to German approval.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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