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    Air Belgium S.A was a Belgian charter airline that launched in May 1979 as a leisure carrier and operated until 2000. On 3 May 1979, tour operator Sun...
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    Taiwan\'s `Air Force One\' - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. 2000-07-15. Retrieved 2023-11-04. "Boeing 737-448 HS-HRH, Operator (Owner): Thailand - Air Force;...
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    Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the...
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    Ukrainian Air Force (Ukrainian: Повітряні сили Збройних сил України, romanized: Povitryani syly Zbroynykh syl Ukrayiny, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine...
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    sold 1993) A963 Stern, (ex-Swedish coastguard ship, laid down 1979, in Belgian service 2000, decommissioned 2014) Ready Duty Ship A964 Heist (ex-M929 Heist;...
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    team of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, active from 1979 until 2019, was the Solo Display Team. The Royal Netherlands Air Force was preceded by the Army...
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    ranking in 1979 and also the next year in 1980, which is the best ranking the Belgian First Division has ever achieved. The first league in Belgian football...
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  • Base, Belgium Used as BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missile base, 1984–1989 Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands (Closed 1994) Woensdrecht Air Base, Netherlands...
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  • The Belgium national football team has officially represented Belgium in men's international football since their maiden match in 1904. The squad is under...
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    Israeli Neshers. In 1968, the Belgian government ordered 106 Mirage 5s from Dassault to re-equip No 3 Wing at Bierset air base. All aircraft but the first...
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    Commander-in-Chief United Kingdom Air Forces (UKAIR). UKAIR fell under NATO's Allied Command Europe in Mons in Belgium. In case of war with the Warsaw Pact...
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    For most of its history, what is now Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the Carolingian Empire, or divided into a number of smaller...
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    through, reportedly, confusion of its crew. The loss of Air New Zealand Flight 901 on November 28, 1979, which killed 257 people, added to the DC-10's negative...
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    recorder and other more minor improvements. In 2000, the initial Alpha Jet 1B+ was re-delivered to the Belgian Air Force. The Alpha Jet was phased out in 2019...
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    Best Selling Single at the Juno Awards of 1979. European 7" single (Ariola 11 705 AT) A. "Love Is in the Air" – 3:27 B. "Won't Let This Feeling Go By"...
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    operations worldwide. SHAPE is situated in the village of Casteau, near Mons, Belgium. ACO's and SHAPE's commander is titled Supreme Allied Commander Europe...
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    owned by the Belgian division of European Air Transport (doing business as DHL Express), was struck on the left wing by a surface-to-air missile while...
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    Adrian Carton de Wiart (category Belgian people of Irish descent)
    Truesdale, David, (2000) Irish Winners of the Victoria Cross Foot, M.R.D. & Langley, J.M., MI9 Escape & Evasion 1939–45, The Bodley Head, 1979, 365 pages Gliddon...
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  • been claimed to be visible to radar. During the 1989–1990 Belgian UFO wave, two Belgian Air Force F-16s attempted to intercept an object detected by radar...
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    Axel Merckx (category Olympic cyclists for Belgium)
    In his professional career (1993–2007), he won the Belgian national road race championship in 2000 and a bronze medal in the road race at the 2004 Olympic...
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  • independence from the Air Force until 3 November 1959. Date first aircraft obtained; the Barbados Defence Force itself was established in 1979. The indicated...
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    page 180 Ballou 2000, pp. 225–226 Lorain 1979, p. 13. Ballou 2000, pp. 89–95 Ballou 2000, pp. 89–95 Ballou 2000, pp. 124–128 Ballou 2000, p. 126: According...
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    1979 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979. 1979 (MCMLXXIX)...
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    Chile, Jordan, and Pakistan have purchased surplus Dutch and Belgian F-16AM/BM for their air forces. The development of new software and hardware modifications...
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  • Hot air balloon festivals are held annually in many places throughout the year, allowing hot air balloons operators to gather- as well as for the general...
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    FSO Polonez (redirect from FSO Polonez 2000)
    took place. The FSO Polonez 2000 Rally with a 2-liter Fiat DOHC engine was displayed later. In 1979, the FSO Polonez 2000, sold mostly to government officials...
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    are Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway; their air forces are likewise referred to as the European Participating Air Forces (EPAF). Belgium Denmark...
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    Stuttgart, Germany; Detachment 10 at Chievres AB, Belgium Abstract, History of Pacific Communications Area Jan 1979 – Dec 1980. Retrieved 20 February 2012 Detachment...
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  • Airlines". Airline History. Retrieved 9 June 2020. "4 W Air". Airline History. Retrieved 9 June 2020. "AAA Air Enterprises". Airline History. Retrieved 9 June...
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    10 metre air pistol is an Olympic shooting event governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF). It is similar to 10 metre air rifle in...
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