2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) An Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) F-35A Lightning II aircraft made aviation history as it completed the very first F-35 trans-Atlantic Ocean crossing, arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., from Cameri Air Base, Italy, on Feb. 5 at 2:24 p.m. EST.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) A member of the Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) stands at the ready as Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) aircraft AL-1 — the first F-35 Lightning II international jet fully built overseas at the Cameri Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility at Cameri Air Base, Italy — arrives at the Navy’s Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (EEE) test and evaluation laboratory aboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River on Feb. 5, 2016.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) A member of the Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) stands at the ready as Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) aircraft AL-1 — the first F-35 Lightning II international jet fully built overseas at the Cameri Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility at Cameri Air Base, Italy — arrives at the Navy’s Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (EEE) test and evaluation laboratory aboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Patuxent River on Feb. 5, 2016.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) An Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) F-35A Lightning II aircraft made aviation history as it completed the very first F-35 trans-Atlantic Ocean crossing, arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., from Cameri Air Base, Italy, on Feb. 5 at 2:24 p.m. EST. F-35A aircraft AL-1, the first international jet fully built overseas at the Cameri Final Assembly & Check-Out (FACO) facility at Cameri Air Base, Italy, is also the first F-35 assembled outside of the U.S. to land on U.S. soil.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) An Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) F-35A Lightning II aircraft made aviation history as it completed the very first F-35 trans-Atlantic Ocean crossing, arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., from Cameri Air Base, Italy, on Feb. 5 at 2:24 p.m. EST.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在卡梅里组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。这架F-35将在帕塔克森特河海军航空站停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（NAS Patuxent River (February 5, 2016) An Italian Air Force (Aeronautica Militare) F-35A Lightning II aircraft made aviation history as it completed the very first F-35 trans-Atlantic Ocean crossing, arriving at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., from Cameri Air Base, Italy, on Feb. 5 at 2:24 p.m. EST.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在地组装的 F-35A 在KC-767加油机的支援下飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。该机于当地时间2月5日上午7:30从亚速尔群岛起飞，途经4次空中加油。这架F-35将在这里停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（AL-1 Arrival at NAS Patuxent River, MD on 5 February, 2016. This was the first time a foreign assembled F-35 to land on US soil. F-35A aircraft AL-1 and an Italian Air Force KC-767 tanker come in for a landing at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland to complete the F-35 program’s first trans-Atlantic flight on Feb. 5, 2016.）

2016年2月5日，意大利空军一架在地组装的 F-35A 飞越大西洋抵达马里兰州帕塔克森特河海军航空站，这是F-35历史上首次跨大西洋飞行，也是首架国外组装的F-35飞抵美国本土。该机于当地时间2月5日上午7:30从亚速尔群岛起飞，下午2:24降落。这架F-35将在这里停留2~3个月进行电磁环境兼容试验，之后转场卢克空军基地进行伙伴训练。（AL-1 Arrival at NAS Patuxent River, MD on 5 February, 2016. This was the first time a foreign assembled F-35 to land on US soil.）

2016年2月1日，BF-02号 F-35B“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在帕塔克森特河海军航空站附近进行外挂武器试验。（Aircraft BF-2 conducts external weapons testing near NAS Patuxent River, Maryland in February 2016.）

美国南卡罗来纳州博福特海军陆战队航空站，VMFAT-501“军阀”训练中队一架 F-35B 联合攻击战斗机由英国飞行员乔纳森·史密斯驾驶完成其第一次F-35飞行。（A Marine signals Squadron Ldr. Jonathan Smith after his first flight in an F-35B Lightning II aboard Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Jan. 11. Smith, from the United Kingdom, will be the first international pilot to complete the entire F-35B training syllabus aboard the air station. Smith is a pilot with the U.K. Royal Air Force detachment attached to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 501, Marine Aircraft Group 31. The Marine is also with the squadron.）