[Aerotime] One of the three Finnish Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters assigned to the type’s first delivery flight to Finland remains at Lajes Air Base in the Azores, Portugal, after developing what the service described as a minor avionics fault.
The aircraft, JF-511, was part of a six-aircraft Finnish and Belgian F-35 detachment that flew from the United States to the Azores on September 15, 2026. When the detachment left the island on September 18, the remaining five F-35s and the KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft supporting them continued without it
It will be flown to Finland with the next group of F-35s during autumn 2026, the Finnish Air Force said in a statement published on September 20, 2026.
According to Brigadier General Aki Puustinen, Chief of Staff of the Finnish Air Force, the aircraft’s fault monitoring system indicated a potential issue during the startup sequence. The crew attempted to resolve it, but once it became clear that further troubleshooting would delay the departure of the entire detachment, the engine was shut down so the issue could be investigated and repaired.
“The issue was a minor avionics fault. The required spare part is currently being shipped to the Azores,” Puustinen said in the statement.
The Finnish Air Force said the detachment could not delay its departure because of a single aircraft. It noted that, in peacetime military aviation, flights can be delayed or cancelled at a low threshold when technical anomalies are detected.
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