08 December 2023
by Gareth Jennings
The UK stood up 809 NAS as its second front-line F-35B unit at RAF Marham on 8 December 2023. (Janes/Gareth Jennings )
The UK stood up its second operational squadron for the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning combat aircraft on 8 December.
The Royal Navy’s (RN’s) 809 ‘Immortals’ Naval Air Squadron (NAS) was reconstituted at the home of the Lightning Force at Royal Air Force (RAF) Marham in Norfolk.
The squadron joins the RAF’s 617 ‘Dambusters’ Squadron as the UK’s two front-line units for the ‘fifth-generation’ short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) jet, with 207 Sqn serving as the operational conversion unit (OCU) at the same location, and 17 Test and Evaluation Sqn at Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) in California.
As with 617 Sqn, 809 NAS is drawn from both the RAF and the RN, with both services performing land- and carrier-based operations of the aircraft.
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- Source: https://www.janes.com/defence-news/uk-stands-up-second-operational-f-35b-squadron
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