Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Navy Restores T-10 Test Cell Facility, Enhancing Fleet Readiness  

The Navy’s T-10 Test Cell Facility here is undergoing a significant revitalization that will enable engine testing in a noise-suppressed environment.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Navy Demonstrates Swarm Mission Planning Tech

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) demonstrated innovative mission planning software for swarms and other configurations of unmanned air, surface and underwater systems at its headquarters in June.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

New Unmanned Test System Accelerates UAS Development at NAWCAD

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) is boosting its testing capabilities with a new UAS experimentation system showcased recently at a training event at Naval Air Station Patuxent River’s Webster Outlying Field.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Blown Away: New FOD Removal Method Enhances Safety

Foreign object debris, or FOD, poses a hazard on flight lines and can threaten the safety of personnel, equipment and aircraft. To minimize these risks, Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Cherry Point, North Carolina, has shifted from physically picking
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

VMR-1 Celebrates Classification as Full Operational Capability Squadron

Marine Transport Squadron (VMR)-1 conducted a ceremony to celebrate achieving full operational capability with the C-40A aircraft at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, June 18.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

VMFA-224 Redesignated as Marine Corps’ Newest F-35B Squadron

Marine All-Weather Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA(AW)) 224 redesignated to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 224 during a change of command and redesignation ceremony here June 26.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Marine Corps Receives Final MQ-9A Reaper, Concluding Rapid Delivery Effort

The Marine Corps received its final MQ-9A Reaper Block 5 Extended Range (ER) Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) Gray Butte flight operations facility in California in June, marking the successful
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Carrier Air Wing 5 Operates at Iwo To

Aircrew from the Navy’s only forward-deployed air wing completed another qualification milestone with Field Carrier Landing Practices (FCLPs) at Iwo To, Japan, May 19 through 31.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Army Soldiers use Naval Aviation Additive Manufacturing Training to Enha...

The Naval Aviation School for Additive Manufacturing (NASAM) is fostering collaboration across forces to ensure lethality and readiness wherever warfighters need it. Recently, two U.S. Army soldiers used the skills they learned at NASAM to produce
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Collaboration, New Training Asset Boost E-6B Pilot Readines

E-6B Mercury pilots from Strategic Communications Wing (SCW) 1 and subordinate commands have completed their first Public Aircraft Operations (PAO) training flight successfully, a significant milestone in maintaining readiness for the critical Take
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

NSDC Member First Navy Officer to Attend USAF Weapons School’s 328th Wea...

Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Dring, National Space Defense Center operations integrations chief, was selected to attend the weapons instructor course at the U.S. Air Force Weapons School’s 328th Weapons Squadron.
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

CNATTU North Island, HSM-35 Partner to Build Safer, More Prepared Fleet

A unique collaboration between the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) North Island and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 35 is proving to be a win-win initiative that strengthens fleet readiness, enhances safety and
Airscoop | Sept. 25, 2025

Navy’s T-54A Ushers in New Era of Pilot Training

The Navy declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the T-54A Marlin II training aircraft in May, giving future naval aviators a modern platform to prepare them for the advanced aircraft they will fly in the fleet.
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