Royal Netherlands Air Force

300 Squadron

Established 1962

History C/N Tracking

First of 17 AS532 Cougar in May 1996 and it earned initial capability on the type in Jul 1997.

From 15apr2010 300 Squadron helped local fire stations with a dune-fire near Bergen aan Zee with 2 Cougar (S-454 and S-459), flying with bambi-buckets.

January 2015 300 Squadron started with medevac flights at Leeuwarden for the Islands. At least to July 2015 2 AS532 located in the north.

Locations

1962-1968	EHYB	Ypenburg
1968-1995	EHDL QAR	Vliegbasis Deelen / Arnhem Deelen
1995-2008	EHSB	Soesterberg AB
2008-	EHGR GLZ	Vliegbasis Gilze-Rijen

Models

1962-1965	Hiller OH-23B
1965-2015	Aerospatiale SE3160 / SA316A Alouette III
1996-	Eurocopter AS532U2 Cougar

Operations

--		Hot Blade 2013
Jan 20012001	Jan 20022002	SFOR (stabilisation force)
21 Sep 20092009	02 Oct 20092009	Tac Blaze 09-2
22 Mar 20102010	01 Apr 20102010	Tac Blaze 10-1
Jul 20122012	Dec 20122012	Combined Task Force 150
04 Jul 20122012	18 Jul 20122012	Hot Blade 2012
Aug 20132013	Dec 20132013	Combined Task Force 150
24 Mar 20142014	25 Mar 20142014	NSS 2014
07 May 20182018	23 May 20182018	Hot Blade 2018
23 May 20182018	06 Jun 20182018	APROC 2018
28 Jun 20222022	21 Jul 20222022	High Blaze 2022
31 Oct 20222022	--	Falcon Autumn 2022
15 May 20232023	01 Jun 20232023	Tac Blaze 23-1

Ships

13 Apr 20202020

Zr Ms Karel Doorman (A833)

embarked Cougars S-441 and S-445 in the North Sea, prior to departing for a 5-6 month deployment in the Caribbean providing support for the COVID pandemic.

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