美国海军 VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 在大西洋进行AGM-154联合防区外武器分离试验。（The F-35 Lightning II Pax River Integrated Test Force from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 conducted the first weapons separation test of an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) from an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant March 23. During flight 180 over the NAVAIR Atlantic Test Ranges, Cmdr. Ted Dyckman, a U.S. Navy F-35 test pilot, dropped an inert JSOW from aircraft CF-05. This test is the first of a series of JSOW separation events scheduled for 2016.）

美国海军 VX-23“咸狗”空中测试与评估中队一架 F-35C“闪电”II 进行45度俯角GBU-12武器分离试验。（Cmdr. Tony "Brick" Wilson takes aircraft CF-05, an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, into a 45-degree dive during an external GBU-12 weapons separation test Feb. 18, 2016.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队CF-05号 F-35C“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在马里兰州东海岸进行满外挂状态下的空中加油测试。（F-35C During High Angle of Attack Testing. Aircraft CF-5 during High AoA Departure Resistance testing with external stores (AIM-9X's and GBU-12's) on July 28, 2015 near NAS Patuxent River.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队CF-05号 F-35C“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在帕塔克森特河海军航空站进行满外挂状态下的高攻角飞行测试。（F-35C During High Angle of Attack Testing. Aircraft CF-5 during High AoA Departure Resistance testing with external stores (AIM-9X's and GBU-12's) on July 28, 2015 near NAS Patuxent River.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队CF-05号 F-35C“闪电”II 系统发展与验证机在帕塔克森特河海军航空站进行拦阻索降落实验。（F-35C Arrest Test. CF-5 during arrestment testing at NAS Patuxent River.）

美国海军 VX-23 空中测试与评估中队的 F-35C“闪电”II 舰载型联合攻击战斗机飞越马里兰东海岸。（CF-05 Flt 127 | Major Andrew "TAC" Tacquard piloting CF-05 over the Eastern Shore of Maryland on 29 May, 2015.）

2011年5月21日，美国德克萨斯州沃思堡，美国海军第三架（CF-03）F-35C“闪电”II 舰载型系统发展与验证机首飞。（The third F-35 Lightning II carrier variant flight test aircraft, designated CF-3, launches from Naval Air Station (NAS) Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base on May 21 on the way to completing its first test flight. CF-3 continues its flight testing in Fort Worth, preparing to fly to NAS Patuxent River, Md., later this year. Once there, it will join two other carrier variant aircraft and four short takeoff/vertical landing aircraft as part of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps flight test program.）