Combat aircraft

VMFA-211 is stationed at Marine Corps

Air Station Yuma, in Arizona. The local

authorities say this area enjoys the

most hours of sunshine year-round of

any place on the planet. Despite the

searing summer temperatures, it makes

for a great  ying location. Current plans

call for four Lightning II squadrons

to be  elded at Yuma. Alongside the

‘Avengers’ will be VMFA-122 ‘The Flying

Leathernecks’, which will  y 16 F-35Bs,

VMA-214 ‘Black Sheep’, which will swap

its AV-8B Harrier IIs for 16 F-35Bs by

mid-2023, and VMA-311 ‘Tomcats’, which

will exit the V/STOL (vertical/short-

take-o and landing) business when

it trades its Harriers for 10 F-35Cs, the

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