Naval Air Facility El Centro (Vraciu Field) facility is a key element within the US Naval Aviation Training system. Global Aviation Resource was recently able to spend a couple days at El Centro to experience first-hand the training activities and the bi-annual Photocall. Tom Gibbons and Kevin Wills report.
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Naval Air Station Fallon is one of the US Navy’s largest and most important bases and is home to a host of interesting units. In a short series of articles, Paul Dunn takes a look some of the best known organisations, starting with the Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center or NAWDC.
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It’s that time of the month again – GAR’s photographic highlights are now live, with all the images here captured in October 2019.
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Welcome to the Global Aviation Resource team’s September 2019 highlights.
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Wednesday 9 October saw three F-35B Lightnings of 617 Squadron depart from RAF Marham heading west, for the Lightning Force’s first westbound Atlantic crossing. Their initial destination was Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, in preparation for embarkation onboard the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for Westlant 19. Chris Wood reports from Marham.
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It’s a bumper edition of Highlights this month as we take a photographic look back at August.
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The Dutch are well known for their love of aviation, so it should come as no surprise that they like a good airshow. For several decades the Koninklijke Luchtmacht (KLu – Royal Netherlands Air Force) have held open days, now known as Luchtmachtdagen (Air Force Days), with hosting shared between their three main operational bases; Gilze-Rijen, Leeuwarden and Volkel. The last event was at Leeuwarden in 2016, which saw the first deployment of Dutch F-35A Lightning IIs to their homeland. The 2019 event took place at Volkel, home to two of the KLu’s F-16 squadrons, on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th June, and Chris Wood reports for GAR.
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Hopefully worth the wait – here are Global Aviation Resource’s photographic highlights for July 2019.
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