Just the pre-requesites are daunting to say the least.
First, the pilot doing this would have to be good enough to actually fly the
airplane, which not only requires specific skills but is aircraft specific
also. That means the thief would have to know where everything is in the

A maintenance troop stole a C-130 off the ramp at RAF Mildenhall. Got all four
started and managed to get ot off the ground. IIRC he was trying to get back
to the US to see his wife or girlfriend wh was leaving him. He ended up headed
the wrong direction and was shot down by fighters out of USAFE as the story
goes. Supposedly he grashed but there were pieces found with what looked to be
cannon hits.

We used to practice trying to steal F-4s from RAF Lakenheath. All it took was
a gullible crew chief to help with the start and then taxi off. Usually the
flightline chief realized there was a plane taxiing that wan't on the schedule
and then the sky cops were launched. Their instructions were to try to block
the plane with their vehicles and if that failed, to shoot the crew.

Unathorized people in the flightline got interesting treatment as well. Full
spread eagle on the ramp with an M-16 barrel poked in the ear. Happened once
to a doctor from the base hospital and his two yong daughters. I suspect they
still talk about their experience with daddy.