AirForces Monthly Magazine

RAF T-6 visits UK

22nd May 2025

United Kingdom Martin Brown THE FIRST T-6C for the Royal...

Sea Kings return to flight

22nd May 2025

Former Royal Navy Sea King HU5 XV666 carrying out ground runs...

Maritime patrol squadrons named

22nd May 2025

RAF personnel currently in the Seedcorn programme were at RAF...

‘Tête de sioux’ Rafale

22nd May 2025

Continental Europe Joris van Boven ARMÉE DE l’Air (French...

Turkish ‘specials’ on tour

22nd May 2025

Fabrizio Berni THESE TWO specially painted Türk Hava Kuvvetleri...

Luftwaffe takes on first A400M with refuelling pods

22nd May 2025

The first Luftwaff e A400M to be fitted with underwing refuelling...

Rare Spanish Searcher MkIII on display

22nd May 2025

Roberto Yáñez A FUERZAS Aeromóviles del Ejército de Tierra...

Polish Air Force Gulfstream delivered

22nd May 2025

Paweł Bondaryk A NEW Gulfstream G550 for the Siły Powietrzne...

Upgraded Dutch PC-7 re-delivered

22nd May 2025

RNLAF Pilatus PC-7 L-01 taxies onto the flight line of 131 EMVO...

One of the latest F-35As for the USAF, 15-5130 (AF-121) first flew at Fort Worth, Texas, on June 8. The aircraft wears the ‘LF’ codes of Luke AFB and will be assigned to the 63rd Fighter Squadron. Carl Richards THE US Air Force grounded a total of 55 F-35As in June after pilots reported physiological […]

Ohio ‘Vipers’ at Load Diffuser in Hungary

22nd May 2025

F-16C 89-2129 ‘OH’ of the 112th FS ‘Stingers’ of the Ohio ANG, normally based at Toledo, on approach to land at Kecskemét air base in Hungary on June 6. Robin Polderman EXERCISE LOAD Diffuser 17 took place at Kecskemét, Hungary from May 22 to June 9 and involved eight F-16Cs from the 180th Fighter Wing […]

‘Evil Eyes’ Osprey

22nd May 2025

The ‘CAG bird’ of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163 ‘Evil Eyes’ was one of the unit’s two MV-22Bs that flew into Seattle’s King County International Airport (Boeing Field) on June 2. MV-22B 168011 ‘YP-00’ was accompanied by 168620 ‘YP-06’, the latter in standard markings. Joe G Walker

F-16 ‘specials’ at Tucson

22nd May 2025

Nate Leong TWO ARIZONA Air National Guard F-16s were recently seen in special markings at Tucson Air National Guard Base. The first is F-16C 88-0417 ‘EL TIGRE’ from the 152nd Fighter Squadron (FS) ‘Tigers’ wearing markings to celebrate this unit’s 75th anniversary that feature the cartoon big cat from the squadron patch as well as […]

‘Liberty Bells’ leave Japan

22nd May 2025

Nate Leong CARRIER AIRBORNE Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 115 ‘Liberty Bells’ departed Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan on June 1. The E-2C squadron completed 44 years of service in the country to become one of the US Navy’s longestserving forward-deployed squadrons. VAW-125 ‘Tigertails’, equipped with the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye, is now based at MCAS Iwakuni […]

Canadian CF-188s in Iceland

22nd May 2025

Single- and two-seat RCAF CF-188s on patrol over Iceland during Operation Reassurance. A full report on Air Task Force- Iceland will appear in the September issue of this magazine. Martin Scharenborg and Ramon Wenink THE ROYAL Canadian Air Force (RCAF) completed a one-month air policing deployment, Operation Reassurance, at Keflavík Air Base beginning on May […]