{"id":1306,"date":"2024-04-13T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=1306"},"modified":"2024-04-13T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T12:12:05","slug":"amx-phase-out-istrana-05-04-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/?p=1306&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"AMX phase-out – Istrana 05\/04\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 5th April, the Italian Air Force retired the AMX, light attack plane serving since 1989. A phase-out ceremony was held in Istrana air base, home of the 51\u00b0 Stormo, last unit flying the AMX.<\/p>\n

Since I was able to confirm my presence only few days before the event, I couldn’t reserve a place for the spotter day, so I had to stay outside the fence.<\/p>\n

The last 5 operational aircraft made some passes in mixed formation with the other tactical assests of the Italian Air Force: Typhoon, Tornado and F-35.
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…e some passes with a Frecce Tricolori 4-ship formation:
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And obviously, an AMX-only formation:
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An aircraft received a special livery for the phase-out:
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30th Anniversary special livery:
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There were also 2 C-27J Spartan, one of which wore the 50’000 flight hours special livery:
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On 5th April, the Italian Air Force retired the AMX, light attack plane serving since 1989. A phase-out ceremony was held in Istrana air base, home of the 51\u00b0 Stormo, last unit flying the AMX. Since I was able to confirm my presence only few days before the event, I couldn’t reserve a place for … Continua la lettura di AMX phase-out – Istrana 05\/04\/2024<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[355,24,43,482,361,20],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotting-report","tag-aeronautica-militare-italiana-en","tag-aircraft","tag-airplane","tag-amx-en","tag-italian-air-force-en","tag-spotting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1307,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/1307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golfvictorspotting.it\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}