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Seen today by a friend who is at Volkel is the fuselage of this C404 on a trailer of a car, driving on th N277 towards Zeeland. Where is it coming from and going to? Does anyone know? It's since Friday February 21st in Apeldoorn. It's in someone's front yard, Kanaal Noord 3A. Good visible from the ...

AF-109 as 15-5118/OT made its maiden flight Tuesday, Dec 20, 2016. Do you perhaps know what happend to AF-105, AF-106, AF-107 and AF-108? Can't seem to find any information on them. In other news, VMFA-121 moved seven F-35Bs to MCAS Iwakuni last week. Four of them are: 169168 VK-04 169293 VK-07 169...

Le Addeur noir wrote:I was told by a Japanese based source VK-04,VK-07,VK-08 and VK-10 (at least) arrived at Iwakuni on the evening of January 19th.

VK-04 and VK-07 arrived a day earlier. I linked the pictures a couple posts back.

169294 VK-08 and 169296 VK-10 and three more F-35B arrived at MCAS Iwakuni on January 19, 2017.

The Flickr page of MCAS Iwakuni shows VK-04 and VK-07 of VMFA-121 landing at MCAS Iwakuni on January 18, 2017. Edit: This album shows VK-04 (BuNo 169168), VK-05 and VK-00 in transit to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on January 9, 2017. (The modexes and one BuNo is readable when you downloa...

Starfighter_F-104G wrote:12.12.2016 Cameri
IAF 2 x F-35Is DLA due to FOG

I see you edited your post. Was the flight of 2 F-35As to Amendola Air Base cancelled? Do you know if this was supposed to be the delivery flight of AL-6/32-13 and AL-7/32-07?

tally wrote:BF-54 delivered Thursday, Nov 17, 2017.
BF-52 delivered Wednesday, Nov 23, 2017.
Both to VMFA-121 at MCAS Yuma.

Thanks tally, much appreciated. Don't you mean 2016?
No sign of BF-55 yet?

I believe the other two to be; MV-55 VMX-1 CF-11 wearing no unit markings (yet). Regards, Charles Yep, seems right! CF-11 is most likely BF-43 BuNo 169028 , which was previously assigned to VMFAT-501 as VM-19. MV-55 is a bit harder to figure out which aircraft it is. If I had to guess I would say i...

DT-III For the F-35B has started aboard USS America on October 28th. Source From pictures here 5 aircraft can be identified (not 100% certain yet): BF-01 VX-23 BF-05 VX-23 SD-65 BF-16 168312 VMX-1 MV-52 BF-20 168718 VMX-1 MV-56 BF-39 169024 VMFA-211 CF-06 The article talks about that two more aircra...

First picture of the 8th British F-35B, ZM142 (169301) has been seen. Taken on October 28.
Now for the F-35B's and F-35C's in Lot 8 we only still miss BF-55 169297 and CF-31 169305.

Edit: F-35C CF-31 169305 has been noticed too at Fort Worth. Picture here.

Melchior Timmers wrote: All above are confirmed, except 169303, have not seen a picture of it with the code, but seems very likely to be NJ-126.

169303 NJ-126 is now confirmed too. 169303 is readable in this picture and NJ-126 in this one.

DT-III has started aboard USS George Washington, with the following aircraft (F-35C): CF-03 VX-23 SD-73 NAVY CF-05 VX-23 SD-75 NAVY 169160 VFA-101 NJ-121 MARINES 169162 VFA-101 NJ-123 MARINES 169163 VFA-101 NJ-124 NAVY 169302 VFA-101 NJ-125 NAVY 169303 VFA-101 NJ-126 MARINES I'm not 100% certain abo...

JASDF releases images of first F-35 Gareth Jennings, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly 15 August 2016 The first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) for Japan was photographed at the Fort Worth production facility in mid-August. The images, released by the Japan Air Self-D...

So currently at Fairford: 12-5042/LF F35A USAF/AETC 56FW 12-5052/LF F35A USAF/AETC 56FW 12-5058/LF F35A USAF/AETC 56FW 168726/VM18 F35B USMC VMFAT 501 168727/VM19 F35B USMC VMFAT 501 ZM137 F35B RAF 17Sq I don't think ZM137 is currently assigned to 17Sq. It's assigned to MCAS Beaufort, training toge...

Le Addeur noir wrote:

frank kramer wrote:Shouldn't VM-18 be 168726?

Not going by the caption on the photo on Fighter Control.

The Bu number is not readable in the photos,although one of the photos of VM-18 may just be 168726.

In this picture 168726/VM-18 is readable.