The Dutch team enjoyed a spectacular welcome home from the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games this week as their flight was given a military escort ©NOC*NSF

The Dutch team enjoyed a spectacular welcome home from the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as their planes from Brazil were accompanied by two F16 fighter planes from the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Koninklijke Luchtmacht.

Two planes from the Leeuwarden airbase escorted each of the two KLM aircrafts which carried the 18 gold, 19 silver and 26 bronze medallists.

They were picked up at the Dutch border by the Koninklijke Luchtmacht and accompanied all the way to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport, which was also done for the returning Olympic team.

In a video posted to Twitter, one F16 pilot can be seen raising his arms and giving the thumbs-up in celebration as he flies his plane alongside the first aircraft carrying the team before producing an impressive barrel roll.

Upon landing, the team were whisked to a reception followed by an official ceremony in Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht.

More than 150 Dutch athletes competed at Rio 2016 as they finished seventh overall in the medals table.

Marlou van Rhijn retained the title she won at London 2012 in the women's 200 metres T44 event and added the 100m T44 gold after winning silver over the shorter distance four years earlier.

Her successes added to her collection of four International Paralympic Committee (IPC) World Championship titles and four European medals.

Kenny van Weeghel also won a gold medal in the men's 400m T54 race to reclaim the Paralympic title he won in the same event 12 years before at Athens 2004.

Liesette Bruinsma claimed the gold medal in the women's 400m freestyle S11 swimming event, to add to her three IPC Swimming European Championship golds won in Funchal in Madeira earlier this year.