RAF Marham from the Royal Navy's "Queen Elizabeth"-class aircraft carriers. The first aircraft are arrived at Marham on 6 June 2018, when a four F-35Bs of No. 617 (Dambusters) Squadron, supported by three Voyagers and an Atlas, made an eight hour flight across the Atlantic from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in South Carolina. The RAF announced on 5 July 2017 that No. 207 Squadron will be the Operational Conversion Unit for the Lightning II. The squadron is expected to stand up at Marham on 1 July 2019. In 2023 the second front-line squadron, No. 809 Naval Air Squadron, will also form
RAF Pembrey RAF Pembrey Royal Air Force Pembrey or RAF Pembrey was a Royal Air Force station located near the village of Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, north west of Burry Port and south of Carmarthen, Wales. Construction of the airfield for RAF Flying Training Command started in 1937. The airfield opened in March 1939, and by September 1939 the RAF's No. 2 Air Armament School was the first unit to be stationed at the airfield. During the Second World War, RAF Pembrey was the airfield base for many of the period's flying aces, and Wing Commander Guy Gibson of the Dambusters. By May 1940,