F-35 cross-servicing milestone to greater NATO interoperability

In a significant development of aircraft interoperability across NATO forces, one country’s personnel conducted the first-ever unsupervised F-35 cross-service operation of another air arm’s Lightning IIs.On April 8, 2024, Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) personnel successfully serviced two US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs at Ørland Air Station. The 48th Fighter Wing (FW) F-35As flew from RAF Lakenheath to Ørland where they were refuelled and re-launched by aircraft maintainers from the RoNAF’s 132nd Air Wing. After two days of operations