Buzzards arrive at the Heath 03-03-22

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Buzzards arrive at the Heath 03-03-22

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A good day at the Heath with the arrival of 14x F-16's from Aviano, 2x Polish Hercs & an AG Herc as well as one of the new F-35's arriving at Marham ZM161 027

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Star’n’bar on “our” F35?
(Mark Twain: There are lies, there are damn lies and then there are statistics)

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Great set.

I’m probably going to be told I’m wrong on this but…

I can recall reading about when Germany used to conduct all its OCU activity in the US - the semi-permanently deployed Phantoms had to wear US markings. As do Singapore F-16s at Luke.

Something to do with a US law that American produced military aircraft have to wear US markings whilst based in the US/or until they are delivered.

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Are Polish Air Force C-130s regular visitors to Lakenheath or is their arrival simultaneous with a bunch of F-16s non-coincidental?

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More likely to be connected with the fact that the 493rd FS F-15Cs are deployed to Lask in Poland at the moment

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Mike wrote:
Fri 04 Mar 2022, 8:43 am
More likely to be connected with the fact that the 493rd FS F-15Cs are deployed to Lask in Poland at the moment
Good point! TYVM.

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Mike wrote:
Fri 04 Mar 2022, 8:43 am
More likely to be connected with the fact that the 493rd FS F-15Cs are deployed to Lask in Poland at the moment
They arrived back at Lakenheath on Monday.

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boff180 wrote:
Fri 04 Mar 2022, 1:47 am
Great set.

I’m probably going to be told I’m wrong on this but…

I can recall reading about when Germany used to conduct all its OCU activity in the US - the semi-permanently deployed Phantoms had to wear US markings. As do Singapore F-16s at Luke.

Something to do with a US law that American produced military aircraft have to wear US markings whilst based in the US/or until they are delivered.
Most likely depends on whose release to service clearance it's being flown under. All the other UK markings and the serial are visible, so I'd guess that the single US marking is enough to identify it as temporarily US and therefore be able to use a US delivery pilot, otherwise can't see why it would be necessary. Foreign F35s in the US currently seem to at least mostly wear their own national markings, so probably the German and Singaporean permanently based aircraft are/were under US RTS rather than national, hence the markings.

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