Pax River F-35 ITF leaves HMS Queen Elizabeth after ‘eclipsing aspirations’
F-35 Lightning jets from the Pax River Integrated Test Force (ITF) left HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), Nov. 19, 2018, after eight weeks flying on and…
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Pax River ITF to conduct first-time trials onboard partner nation’s carrier
After years of partnership within the F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office, U.S. and United Kingdom team members from the F-35 Pax River Integrated Test…
F-35 Pax River ITF expands expeditionary envelope for USMC
The F-35 Patuxent River Integrated Test Force team brings the U.S. Marine Corps’ F-35B one step closer to initial operational test and evaluation as they…
Vintage plane crashes in Hudson River
A World War II-era plane crashed Friday in New York City’s Hudson River, and a body was recovered from inside the aircraft, authorities said. The…
Taiwan plane crashes into river after take-off, killing 23
* Dramatic footage shows stricken plane’s wing clipping taxi, motorway * “Mayday Mayday engine flameout”: air traffic control recording * Passengers swim, wade away…
Second production-level F-35B arrives at Patuxent River BF-18 temporarily adds to test fleet
Navy test pilot Lt. Christopher Tabert taxis BF-18, a production-level F-35B variant of the Lightning II, after arrival Nov. 8. BF-18 temporarily adds to the…
First production-level F-35B arrives at NAS Patuxent River
BF-17, part of the third lot of Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP 3) F-35B Lightning II aircraft, arrives at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.,…
Navy conducts Pax River’s first flight of X-47B unmanned aircraft
The Navy made Pax River history today after it conducted the naval air station’s historic first flight of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS)…
Second X-47B UCAS-D arrives at NAS Patuxent River
It was not an ordinary morning at Pax River when a large flatbed truck hauling the fighter-sized X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator (UCAS-D) entered…
X-47B gears up for summer milestones
In recent months, Pax River personnel may have noticed a new, uniquely shaped tailless aircraft on the runway, the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator…
F-35C completes initial catapult testing
F-35 integrated test force personnel and F-35C test aircraft CF-3 returned to NAS Patuxent River last week after completing two major catapult test events. Starting…
Cargo UAS tests to begin at Pax
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md.—The Navy and Marine Corps plans to field a cargo unmanned aircraft system are moving forward as the first of…
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