03.11.2019, 18:02
Zitat: Air Platformshttps://www.janes.com/article/92310/dutc...gned-f-35a
Dutch receive first operationally-assigned F-35A
The first operationally-assigned Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter for the Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) arrived in-country on 31 October.
Aircraft F-009 flew into Leeuwarden Air Base (AB), one of the RNLAF's two planned F-35 operating stations, from the Italian final assembly and check-out (FACO) facility at Cameri. Aircraft F-009 will be assigned to 322 Squadron, as the unit begins its transition from the Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon. [...]
The RNLAF is procuring the F-35A to replace its F-16AM/BMs, with 46 set to be ordered for EUR5 billion (USD5.6 billion). The first eight are currently located in the United States as part of the international training and test and evaluation fleets (six F-35As are located at Luke AFB, with two at Edwards AFB in California). In May 2016, two aircraft made the flight from Luke AFB to Leeuwarden AB, marking the first time that RNLAF F-35s had visited the Netherlands.
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