The NATO Tiger Meet is organized and hosted on a different airbase almost every year. This year the Albacete airbase in Spain was host for the 2006 Tiger Meet, and place to be to photograph lots of tiger details and tails of the gathered participants. A large amount of colorful participants had gathered on the hot Spanish tarmac. The organization was a little bit late with the arrangement of the media days, and the communication could have been much better. However there was a public day organized on Sunday the 1st of October, and this provided the opportunity to travel to the south of Spain for a report on the NTM 2006. The NATO Tiger Meet 2006 took place from 25 September till 2 October, with on the 1st of October the public day, which sadly did not include any flying, but only a static display. This year’s host was the Escuadrón 142 of the Spanish Ejército del Aire, which was of course present with two of its Mirage F-1 fighters. One with a delicate black and white tiger print on the tail section, and the other F-1 with the logo of the NTM 2006 on its tail. It was the second time that the Tiger Meet was organized by the Escuadrón 142, the first time being back in 1992. Equipped with Mirage F-1s since 1980, Escuadrón 142 is part of Ala 14 together with the Escuadrón 141. Both the 141 & 142 squadrons will fly the Mirage F-1 till 2015. During the Tiger Meet exercise the first operational Eurofighter Typhoons were integrated as opponents in some of the COMAO sorties. Based at Moron de la Frontera airbase, Escuadron 111 is the first unit that initiated the conversion from EF-18A/B+ to the fourth generation fighter. Apart from in total 41 fighter aircraft, where also two Westland Puma HC.1 from RAF Aldergrove’s 230 Squadron, one Czech support Mi-17 and four Czech Mi-24 Hinds from Prerov’s 231 Squadron present, which flew Combat SAR missions. Other participants at the tiger meet included the 1 Squadron equipped with the E-3A AWACS, but were only operating from the Torrejon base. And the 335 Squadron from Araxos, Greece were present with only two pilots without their colorful A-7E, due to the fact that one A-7E Corsair II from the 335 Sqn crashed on 20 September 2006. Overall the meeting was a very nice, and not often seen gathering of several NATO tiger squadrons with their aircrafts in even more exclusive and colorful tiger prints. With as highlights the Mirage 2000C from the EC1/12 Cambresis in a completely black/white covered color scheme. The French Rafale with a very detailed tiger print on the wings, canards and the tail. And the Mi-24V Hind of the 231.vrl from the Czech Republic in the now well-known night/tiger color scheme.