Category: RAAF

Two RAAF C-130Js from Richmond’s 37SQN and 68 personnel have deployed to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska to participate in Exercise Red Flag Alaska 14-2. The two week exercise runs from June 12 to 27, and also includes units from the US and Japan. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Airbus Defence and Space has outlined a number of enhancements for its A330 multi-role tanker transport during its annual media briefing in Getafe last week. Dubbed MRTT Enhanced and planned to be flight tested from late 2015, the enhancements include improved aerodynamics, engine performance improvement packages, and avionics introduced on commercial A330s in recent years,

Images of the RAAF’s first Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II being towed from the production line to the paint facility have been revealed. The aircraft, dubbed AU-1 and appearing in primer colours, is due to be officially rolled out in July and delivered to the USAF’s Integrated Training Center at Luke AFB in Arizona later

A Royal Saudi Air Force A330 MRTT tanker has supported a trans-Atlantic deployment of RSAF F-15s to Las Vegas to Red Flag exercises earlier this year. The aircraft staged through Moron AFB in Spain and McGuire AFB in New Jersey, and covered 16,000km each way. A release from Airbus Defence and Space congratulating the RSAF