2016年6月29日，美国海军陆战队 VMFAT-501“军阀”训练中队的 F-35B 横跨大西洋护送英国接收的首架同型战机。（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.）
