2016年6月29日，英国接收的首架F-35B在美国海军陆战队的两架同型飞机的伴随下从美国南卡罗来纳州的训练基地横跨大西洋飞往英国。（The first of Britain’s new supersonic ‘stealth’ strike fighters has touched down in the UK for the first time. The F-35B Lightning II jet was flown by RAF pilot Squadron Leader Hugh Nichols on its first transatlantic crossing, accompanied by two United States Marine Corps F-35B aircraft from their training base at Beaufort, South Carolina.）
