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at Naval Air Station PaxRiver Maryland, conducting test pilot and developmental test activity.
617 Squadron personnel are due to arrive in the UK early summer 2018, with an initial 4aircraft followed by afurther 5. This will be atremendous challenge to bring back our personnel and their families from the US, where many have spent acouple of years living. RAF Marham is working hard to ensure that move is as painless as possible, with station personnel engaging closely with 617 Squadron, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation to allocate families quarters and the local community,including schools, to accommodate the influx of personnel. Planning is well underway to support the personnel returning from the United States to integrate them into their new surroundings at RAF Marham.
617 Squadron will not be the only Lightning Squadron at RAF Marham in the future. In 2017 it was announced by Chief of the Air Staff and First Sea Lord that the Operational Conversion
Unit for the UK’s Lightning fleet will be 207 Squadron. The squadron has aproud and distinguished history, not only as an RAF squadron but as one of the earliest squadrons of the Royal Naval Air Service which, with the Royal Flying Corps, formed the Royal Air Force on 1April 1918. 207 Squadron will be responsible for training pilots to operate Lightning where cutting edge simulation
technology will offer the primary means of training to pilots to conduct the full range of 5th generation missions.
Look forward to seeing the UK’s latest defence capability in the skies above Norfolk very soon.
Aeriel images taken as the aircraft travelled across for RIAT2016.
One of the UK’s first F-35B Lightning aircraft takes off from Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
Flying over RAF Marham.
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Winter 2017
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