38 years Serving with the Royal Danish Air Force Who Am I Niels J. Hellgren 38 years Serving with the Royal Danish Air Force

What did I do? MY CV. My Name is Niels Jørgen Hellgren. Borne 7 maj 1943 i Boserup skov at Roskilde Denmark. Graduated from Roskilde Real Skole in 1960. Radio and TV Mechanic 31/12-1964 at Roskilde. Royal Danish Air Force Flying Training School may 3. 1965. Sent to Canada 14. October 1965 for Jet pilot training. Home from Canada to Officers School and advanced Pilot Training 11 January 1967 at RDAF Skrydstrup. Posted at RDAF Karup, 725 SQN flying F-100. Posted at RDAF flying training School June 1968. Posted at RDAF Vaerloese, 721 Tactical Air Transport SQN august 1975. Posted at Sonderstrom AFB in Greenland 1980-1982. Posted at ENJJPT in Texas, USA 1988-1989. Posted at Sonderstrom AFB in Greenland 1989-1991. Chef of flight safety at RDAF Værløse 1996-1999. Squadron commander 721 SQN from 1999-2003. Posted in Kyrgyzstan JAN-JULY 2002. Retired from RDAF 2003, there after 3½ at the Danish Clock and Watch Makers School.

RDAF Flying Training School DH Chipmunk

RCAF MOOSE JAW Tutor T-33 Silver Star

Conversion to the Danish T-Bird T-33A SILVER STAR

725 SQN RDAF KARUP F-100 SUPER SABRE

RDAF AVNOE PILOT INSTRUCTOR DE HAVILAND CHIPMUNK

RDAF VAERLOESE Conversion to DC-3/ C-47 FLEW IN THE MOVIE ”A BRIDGE TOO FAR”

CONVERSION TO C-130 HERCULES GREENLAND AFGANISTAN

RED CROSS RELIEF MISSION IN SUDAN 1985 EL FASCHER

MY FIRST GREENLAND TOUR AS COMMANDER 1980-1982

POSTING IN TEXAS T38 TALON

CONVERSION TO G-III GULFSTREAM HRH CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK OF DENMARK

Sarajevo 1990 X-JUGOSLAVIEN ROUND ROBIN WITH DANISH FOREIGN MINISTER UFFE ELLEMAN JENSEN

I KNEW HIM AS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR I SAW HIS AIRPLANE HE SAW MINE. KING HUSSEIN OF JORDAN I KNEW HIM AS A HAM RADIO OPERATOR I SAW HIS AIRPLANE HE SAW MINE.

Kyrgyzstan AND Afghanistan 2002 I WAS RDAF DETACHEMENT COMMANDER. RETIRED AT THE AGE OF 60 FROM THE RDAF IN 2003