Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Naval Aviation News Magazine Wins First Place Navy Public Affairs Award

The Naval Aviation News (NAN) magazine recently received the first place Team Publication in the Navy Public Affairs Awards (NPAA) program for calendar year 2024.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

New Heights: 3rd MAW Marines, Squadrons Earn Top Aviation Awards

Marines and squadrons from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) have been recognized with 12 Marine Corps Aviation Association 2025 Aviation Awards, honoring their exceptional leadership and dedication to mission accomplishment. The highly competitive
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

NAWCAD Lakehurst Certifies New Testing Equipment for Ship Motion Platform

After three years of development, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, New Jersey, successfully qualified the Motion Platform Aerial Sensor Suite (MPASS) prototype system for future use with the Ship Motion Platform (SMP).
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Lakehurst Team Steps Up to Meet Fleet Need for Critical Equipment

Thanks to team members from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, New Jersey, the fleet restocked its supply of release elements, a critical safety item needed to launch C-2 Greyhounds and E-2 Hawkeyes from an aircraft carrier.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Aircraft Maintenance Enables a Capable Aircraft for Search and Rescue Mi...

While Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 25 is embarked aboard USS America (LHA 6), the crew practices search and rescue (SAR) training at sea. SAR is a life-saving mission designed to recover people on land and at sea in emergencies. Aircrew
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Navy Delivers New Crash and Salvage Cranes, Strengthening Fleet Readiness

The Navy’s Common Aviation Support Equipment Program Office delivered in February the first of 27 replacement Crash and Salvage Cranes (CSC) to Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) in Pensacola, Florida.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Retired AV-8B II+ Soars to New Mission with Pima Air and Space Museum

A retired and demilitarized AV-8B Harrier II+ was inducted into the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, Feb. 14.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

HM-12 ‘Sea Dragons’ Host Sundown Ceremony

Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 12 held a sundown ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, March 21, closing the chapter on 54 years of excellence.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Marine Corps MQ-9 Reapers Enhanced with Advanced Payload Upgrade

The Navy’s MQ-9 Reaper test squadron at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, received the first SkyTower II (STII) pod in preparation for the system’s initial operational capability (IOC) next year.
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Marines Fast Track New Tug for MQ-9 Reaper

The Navy and Marine Corps Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems Program Office recently delivered a cutting-edge aircraft towing solution to a Marine Corps squadron at Cherry Point, North Carolina, addressing urgent operational needs in
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Marines Test Wireless Long-Range Precision Fires Successfully

Late last year, the Marine Corps executed successfully its first live employment test of a new Long-Range Precision Fire (LRPF) capability. The event was executed at Yuma Proving Grounds (YPG) in Yuma, Arizona, where an AH-1Z Viper conducted single
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

U.S.-Based F-35s Replace Hornets in Rotational Deployments to Japan

The U.S. Marine Corps’ Japan-based aviation forces received their first F-35 deployment from the continental United States on March 8. Based out of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona, Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 214, an F-35B
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

‘Flying Nightmares’ Bring F-35B Thunder to Fort Worth

Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 502, the “Flying Nightmares,” trained new and transitioning pilots on the F-35B Lightning II on a two-week detachment training at Naval Air Station (NAS) Joint Reserve Base (JRB) Fort Worth through
Airscoop | Aug. 6, 2025

Navy’s Carrier Airwing Flies Further with Hercules’ New Tanker Approval

The Navy Reserve’s KC-130T Hercules fleet, upgraded with the NP200 propeller system, is cleared to aerially refuel a significantly wider range of aircraft across the carrier airwing after envelope expansion testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

Navy’s Third Operational F-35C Lightning II Squadron Achieves Safe-for-F...

Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 86 has earned a Full Safe-for-Flight certification on the F-35C. The F-35C enhances the carrier strike group’s ability to project power, supporting U.S. national security and integrating seamlessly with other carrier air
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

NAWCWD Team Delivers F-35 MDF in Record Time

The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) team delivered a crucial mission data file (MDF) ahead of schedule, accelerating the normal production timeline significantly to support Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314 aboard USS
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

VMFA-533 First Operational F-35 Squadron Aboard MCAS Beaufort to Receive...

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 533, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 31, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), received its first F-35B Lightning II jet Oct. 11, 2024, aboard Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, South Carolina.
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

Carderock Team Provides Critical Technical Support for F-35B Sea Trials ...

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division’s Platform Integrity Department engineers responded to a request from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Paxtuxent River F-35 Integrated Test Force (ITF) to support
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

F-35B Begins Sea Trials with Japanese Multi-Functional Destroyer in East...

A U.S. F-35 Lightning II aircraft landed aboard Japan’s Izumo-class multi-functional destroyer JS Kaga (DDH 84) for the first time Oct. 20, 2024, off the southern coast of California to begin developmental test aboard the allies’ largest ship.
Airscoop | April 25, 2025

VMFA-211 Facilitates USS Tripoli Aviation Certification

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 211 deployed with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit aboard the Essex Amphibious Ready Group in 2018, marking the first combat deployment of the F-35B Lightning II. This deployment demonstrated the effectiveness