Pakistani King Air
Düsseldorf Airport welcomed an unusual visitor on April 21 in the shape of Pakistan Army King
Air 300 365 (c/n FL-365). John WilsonMILITARY AIRCRAFT ORDERS
Air Arm Company Number and Type Contract DateDelivery Date and Notes
French Army Sagem 14 x Patroller UAV April 5 Deliveries to begin in 2018
Mexico Sikorsky Aircraft 7 x UH-60M Black Hawk April 11 Estimated completion date February 28, 2019
Royal Netherlands
Air ForceBoeing 12 x CH-47F Chinook April 14United States
Coast GuardLockheed Martin 1 x HC-130J Super
HerculesApril 18US Army Sikorsky Aircraft 1 x UH-60M Black Hawk April 7 Estimated completion date July 31, 2017
US Army Boeing 117 x AH-64E Apache
GuardianApril 7 Estimated completion date May 31, 2018US Marine Corps Lockheed Martin 6 x F-35B Lightning II May 2 Estimated completion date December 2019
US Navy Sikorsky Aircraft 2 x CH-53K King StallionApril 18 Estimated completion date October 2021
US Navy Lockheed Martin 4 x F-35C Lightning II May 2 Estimated completion date December 2019
USAF Lockheed Martin 3 x F-35A Lightning II May 2 Estimated completion date December 2019MILITARY NEWS
12 Aviation News incorporating Classic Aircraft June 2016Prowlers Join
the Fight Against
Daesh
An undisclosed number of US Marine Corps
EA-6B Prowlers have deployed to Incirlik Air
Base, Turkey, as part of Operation Inherent
Resolve. US European Command officials
announced their arrival on April 14.
The unit involved is Marine Corps Tactical
Electronic Attack Warfare Squadron 4
(VMAQ-4) ‘Seahawks’ from MCAS Cherry
Point, North Carolina. The deployment is
currently planned to last until September.Indian Jaguars on the Prowl
Indian Air Force Jaguar JS209 powers
away from CFB Trenton, Ontario, en route
to Red Flag-Alaska 2016-1. Andrew H ClineFour Jaguar IS ghters were among a large
Indian Air Force contingent that deployed
to Eielson AFB for Red Flag-Alaska 2016-- They were joined by four Sukhoi Su-
30MKI Flankers, two Ilyushin Il-78MKI
Midas tankers and a pair of Boeing C-17A
Globemaster IIIs.
The Task Force left Jamnagar Air Force
Station in India on April 3, routing via Bahrain,
Egypt, France, Portugal and Canada before
arriving in Alaska. In the build-up to the
exercise, which ran from April 28 to May 13,
the Indian pilots ew familiarisation ights to
get used to operations and procedures.Flying Ends
at Dishforth
Military ying at Dishforth, North Yorkshire,
has ceased, 80 years after the base
opened as a Royal Air Force Station in- Latterly, it was an Army Air Corps
(AAC) facility, housing the Lynx helicopters
of 9 Regiment.
A parade and ypast took place on April
23 to mark disbandment of the unit and
hand-over of the base to 6 Regiment Royal
Logistics Corps, which is returning from
Germany later this year. The AAC had been
ying helicopters from Dishforth since 1992.
On June 30, 9 Regiment will officially
merge with 1 Regiment at RNAS Yeovilton,
Somerset, to operate the AAC’s new
Wildcat battle eld utility helicopter.
LXX Sqn Centenary
Celebrated
Special tail markings have been applied to RAF
A400M Atlas C1 ZM406 at RAF Brize Norton,
celebrating the 100th anniversary of LXX Sqn.
The unit was formed at South Farnborough,
Hampshire, on April 22, 1916. After disbanding
as a C-130K Hercules squadron in September
2010, it stood up again, initially only in an
administrative and engineering support
capacity, on October 1, 2014, ready to become
the rst operational RAF Atlas squadron. It was
then officially re-formed as an Atlas unit on July
23, 2015.Wildcats for 815 NAS
Four Wildcats have been delivered to
815 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) at RNAS
Yeovilton as it begins converting from the
Lynx after 35 years.
Over the next 11 months the Fleet Air
Arm’s largest squadron will phase out its Lynx
HMA8SRUs and replace them with a further
eight Wildcats. The nal Lynx HMA8SRU
ight joins HMS Portland for a nine-month
deployment shortly.Yeovilton already has one Wildcat
squadron, 825 NAS, which has deployed its
rst Wildcat ight, a nine-month stint with
HMS Lancaster to the Caribbean, Paci c
and Atlantic.
Two of 815 NAS’s initial batch of
Wildcats were transferred from 825
NAS with the other two straight from the
Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica and
AgustaWestland) plant at Yeovil, Somerset.No.825 NAS has also supplied 54
technicians and six pilots/observers. The
rst 815 NAS Wildcat ight joined destroyer
HMS Duncan in April.
“Uniquely, we are now a squadron that is
simultaneously operating two different types
of aircraft – and will continue to do so until
the Lynx goes out of service on March 31
next year,” said Cdr Phil Richardson, 815’s
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