According to Statista, the Royal Air Force currently has 556 fixed-wing aircraft. These range from tiny training aircraft to next-generation fast jets like the F-35 Lightning II to enormous freighters ...

A post-war jet fighter that has stood as the gate guard outside an RAF station could be donated to an aviation museum. The Hawker Hunter aircraft (WT612) has been positioned outside RAF Henlow, ...

Military aircraft are continuing to pass through Swindon skies as tension grows in Iran, with RAF Fairford taking a major ...

The first of three Boeing E-7/E-7A Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft for the RAF was shown for the first time with its livery on 18 October 2024. (Crown Copyright) Crew ...

The US air force’s heaviest bombers have arrived at an RAF base for the first time since the start of the war in Iran.

Group Captain Richard Dixon, who has died aged 93, saw service in the Suez Canal Zone and was twice deployed to Christmas ...

LONDON–First delivery of the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) new E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft will now take place late this year, the UK’s National Armaments Director has revealed. Andy Start ...

An RAF F‑35 pilot has carried out the aircraft’s first combat shoot-down for the UK, intercepting and destroying two hostile ...

A man has been remanded in custody over his alleged involvement in a demonstration that saw aircraft damaged at RAF Brize Norton. Muhammad Umer Khalid, 22, is charged with conspiracy to commit ...

A file photo of an RAF P-8 Poseidon MMA. Flight tracking data has for the first time shown the maritime patrol aircraft to be conducting overland surveillance ...

Four RAF Typhoon aircraft have deployed from RAF Coningsby to Qatar, in order to bolster the UK’s air presence in the Middle ...