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F-35A Completes First Transatlantic Ocean Crossing

Pat Host

Monday, February 8th, 2016

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F-35A Completes First Transatlantic Ocean Crossing

The first F-35A for the Italian Air Force, and the first F-35 built at the Cameri FACO, takes to the skies over Italy, Sept. 7, 2015. Photo: Lockheed Martin.

An Italian Air Force F-35A on Friday afternoon completed the first transatlantic Ocean crossing, arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., from Cameri Air Base, Italy, according to a Defense Department statement.The F-35A landed at NAS Patuxent River at 2:24 p.m. EST. The two-phase deployment across the north Atlantic to the United States required a total of 11 flight hours, enabled by an Italian Air Force KC-767 aerial refueling tanker, which refueled the F-35A known as AL-1 seven times…

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