The farewell flight starts around 13:30 from the airport and lasts about two hours. From Volkel, the formation goes past the De Peel air base, the old air base in Twente, via Leeuwarden and Vlieland to the command center Nieuw-Milligen. The aircraft then go past Soesterberg where pilots were medically examined and to The Hague for the Ministry of Defense. Woensdrecht will receive an aerial visit because that is where the training for pilots was and the F-16s were maintained. The aircraft, which fly over the Netherlands at an altitude of at least 400 meters, can also be admired from Gilze en Rijen and Eindhoven.

The aircraft have been in use since 1979 and are outdated according to the Air Force, maintenance becomes more expensive. They are being replaced by the newer F-35s. Ukraine will receive 24 of the old F-16s for the battle against Russia, eighteen aircraft will go to a training center in Romania. Not all F-16s will be present at the farewell. Several aircraft have already been brought to the training ground where the Romanians work together with the Danes and Belgians. Whether there are fighter jets in Ukraine is unknown, because of the sensitivity of that information nothing is shared about it.