1. 38 years Serving with the Royal Danish Air Force
Who Am I
Niels J. Hellgren
38 years Serving with the Royal Danish Air Force

2. 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/ at Roskilde.
Royal Danish Air Force Flying Training School may
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
Posted at ENJJPT in Texas, USA
Posted at Sonderstrom AFB in Greenland
Chef of flight safety at RDAF Værløse
Squadron commander 721 SQN from
Posted in Kyrgyzstan JAN-JULY 2002.
Retired from RDAF 2003, there after 3½ at the Danish Clock and Watch Makers School.

3. RDAF Flying Training School DH Chipmunk

4. RCAF MOOSE JAW
Tutor T-33 Silver Star

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

6. 725 SQN RDAF KARUP
F-100 SUPER SABRE

7. RDAF AVNOE
PILOT INSTRUCTOR
DE HAVILAND CHIPMUNK

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

9. CONVERSION TO C-130 HERCULES
GREENLAND
AFGANISTAN

10. RED CROSS RELIEF MISSION IN SUDAN 1985
EL FASCHER

11. MY FIRST GREENLAND TOUR AS COMMANDER 1980-1982

12. POSTING IN TEXAS
T38 TALON

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

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

15. 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.

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