芬兰政府订购了64架F-35A战机，这将构成北欧地区最大的该型机队。2026年4月15日，一名芬兰空军飞行员首次驾驶F-35A战斗机，标志着芬兰F-35能力部署取得了进展。根据芬兰空军在社交媒体X上分享的视频，此次飞行发生在美国阿肯色州史密斯堡的埃宾空军基地。
这一事件紧随芬兰首架F-35A多用途战斗机（编号JF-501）的初步飞行之后，该机于2025年12月8日在工厂测试评估期间完成了飞行。随后，该飞机于2025年12月16日在德克萨斯州沃斯堡由洛克希德·马丁公司举行的仪式上正式公开亮相。
今年1月，在飞机抵达后，官员们开始在史密斯堡的埃宾国民警卫队空军基地对芬兰空军F-35A机队进行适航性和验收检查。次月，第一组芬兰空军飞行员开始在佛罗里达州埃格林空军基地接受理论和基于模拟器的F-35培训。
芬兰政府在2021年12月的HX计划中选择F-35作为其首选飞机。它订购了64架F-35A战机，将构成北欧最大的此类机队。今年秋天，芬兰的首批F-35飞机将移交给拉普兰空军联队。
The Finnish government ordered 64 F-35A jets, which will constitute the largest such fleet in northern Europe.
Finland’s first F-35A was rollout in December last year. Credit: © Lockheed Martin Corporation.
A Finnish Air Force pilot flew the F-35A fighter aircraft for the first time on 15 April 2026, marking an advancement in Finland’s F-35 capability deployment.
The flight occurred at Ebbing Air Force Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, US, as per a video shared by the Finnish Air Force on X. Discover B2B Marketing That Performs
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This event followed the initial flight of Finland’s first F-35A multirole jet, designated JF-501, which took place during factory test evaluations on 8 December 2025.
The aircraft was subsequently presented publicly at a ceremony hosted by Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas on 16 December 2025.
Suomen F-35-suorituskyvyn käyttöönotto saavutti merkittävän virstanpylvään tänään 15.4.2026, kun 🇫🇮 Ilmavoimien ohjaaja lensi ensimmäistä kertaa F-35A-hävittäjällä. Lento lennettiin 🇺🇸 Fort Smithissä Arkansasissa sijaitsevasta Ebbingin tukikohdasta. #ilmavoimat #F35 #F35hanke pic.twitter.com/gwAxpWqZcS— Ilmavoimat (@FinnishAirForce) April 15, 2026
In January this year, officials began airworthiness and acceptance inspections for the Finnish Air Force F-35A fleet at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, following the arrival of the aircraft.
The following month, the first group of Finnish Air Force pilots commenced theoretical and simulator-based F-35 training at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
The Finnish Government chose the F-35 as its preferred aircraft under the HX Programme in December 2021. It ordered 64 F-35A jets, which will constitute the largest such fleet in northern Europe.
This Autumn, Finland’s first F-35 aircraft will be transferred to Lapland Air Wing in Rovaniemi, which will be the initial main air base in the country to deploy the F-35 capability.
Karelia Air Wing, an operation unit of Finnish Air Force in Rissala, Kuopio is scheduled to receive its first F-35A fighters in 2028.
Last month, Finnish Air Force commander major general Timo Herranen said that the introduction of the F-35 into service was progressing.
“I can be happy for the programme moving forward, but a great deal of work is yet to be done before we get to receive the first fighter jets in Finland. For example, as far as the infrastructure building projects are concerned, the number of details increase and become concrete as the time of the completion of the facilities approaches,” Herranen said.