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First I'm gonna give you some info about the Crest Of the Airbase and you also can see Why i chose the Nick name that i use on The Internet .
Because in the heraldic the dragon has a special meaning we have to go far back into the history of Friesland. There it says in the Cronics of Ockam Scharlensem (1597) that there was a sighting in the early year of 4 AC. It says: Midsummer in the early year of Four arose on the South-west of the Mountain, which was called "Rode Klif", about ten passes away from it, a flaming torch three days in a row from the earth and on the fourth day there came a giant dragon flying out of it it arose high in the sky as it frightend many; and after about half an hour showing itself high up in the sky it decended again. This story deals with sightings of a flying dragon over the "Rode Klif" in Gaasterland, in the south of Friesland. Years later Pierium Winsemius describes this sighting in his book in 1662 as follows: Near the Cliff in the South for now as in a Legend from Stavoren after three days of erupting fearfully in the sky it showed a dragon or giant serpent over the sky of Stavoren where it terified and scared the people in great matter. There are several reports about these firesightings throughout a large period of time. These appearances have become a part of history of the "Rode Klif", first in the Middle Ages as a frightening and terrifying appearance and much later as a symbol of protection of the Frisian land.Shaped through the myths told around the village of Molkwerum in the south of Friesland, the dragon became the protection against the bad weathers from the Zuiderzee. The bad weather would float past the village and by this, it protected it against the fires from heaven (thunder and lighting).
Because of this connection of the flying dragon and the air, and because of the protection it gave to the people, there is the symbolic connection of the dragon in the emblem of Leeuwarden AB. Because there are still "dragons" taking off from the airbase, to offer protection over the skies of Friesland.
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