2020
Dec – 3rd: B-52H 61-0001 (5 BW / 69 BS) – departed 14th December
2021
Exercise Baltic Trident
The 420th Air Base Squadron and 420th Expeditionary Air Base Squadron at RAF Fairford provided support to Exercise Baltic Trident, which took place at RAF Fairford and across several Baltic countries from March 15 – 19.
Six KC-135R arrived on 15 March, flew missions and gradually returned to Mildenhall with the last onces leaving on Friday 19 March.
Four KC-135 also deployed to Lithuania
Aug – 23rd: 10x F-15E 48FW RAF Lakenheath – departed 27th August
25th: 2x B-2A’s from Keflavik performed a missed approach at RAF Fairford – 92-0700 Spirit of Florida & 89-0128 Spirit of Nebraska
Sep – 13th: 1x RC-135W 95th RS RAF Mildenhall deployed to Fairford for Exercise HIGH LIFE – departed 17th September (believe a patch exists, same as below but with the exercise name on it)
2022
Oct – 21st: B-52H 60-0022 – departed 31st October
2023
July – B-52H 61-0004 (20th BS) & B-52H 61-0029 (93rd BS AFRC) attended the Royal International Air Tattoo (www.scramble.nl)
Aug – 18th: 2x B-2A’s 82-1070 & 90-0040 arrived from Keflavik for hot-pit refueling – both jets departed the same day
Sep – 14th: B-52H 60-0007 (23 BS) & B-52H 60-0026 (23 BS) – departed 15th September
Dec – 13th: B-2A 82-1066 Spirit of America diverted in during a Global Power Mission. Departed 18th December
2024
Mar – 6th: B-1B 86-0095 diverted in – departed 30th March
June – 27th:
July – B-52H 61-0010 (343rd BS) attended the Royal International Air Tattoo (www.scramble.nl)
July 23rd: B-52H 61-0016 (20 BS) – departed 26th July (visiting for the Farnborough Air Show)
August – 22nd: RQ-4B 11-2046 (319th Reconnaissance Wing) – departed 24th August
First U.S. RQ-4 deployment to England www.dvidshub.net/news/479514/pathfinders-support-us-rq-4b-global-hawk
2025
March / April – Ramstein Flag 2025
5x F-16s Turkish Air Force
3x F-16s Romanian Air Force
1x KC-135R Turkish Air Force
Support aircraft started to arrive on the 24th March in preperation for the Exercise (31st March to 11th April) http://www.prk-aviation.nl/Ramsteinflag2025.htm
May – 352 SOW Exercise
CV-22’s, C-130’s and a C-146 from RAF Mildenhall. Aircrafts arrived 7th May
July
July 15th: B-1B 85-0060 arrived for RIAT – departed July 22nd
August
August 13th: A visit by the US Vice President JD Vance News Article
C-32As 98-0001 (SAM044) & 98-0002 (SAM352) arrived and departed the same day
September
September 12th: B-52’s 61-0029 & 61-0014 arrive for Cobra Warrior 25-2
61-0014 has the tail code OT / 49 TES – the first time an OT tail has visited the UK
Both jets departed 25th September
2026
January
RAF Fairford was used in support of the boarding of the BELLA 1 / MARINERA Oil Tanker on the 7th January 2026 in the North Atlantic. The first activity being the arrival of GENA17 C-40 21-0024 in the early hours of the 1st January, departing on the 2nd January as AREA17. Afterwards a number of C-17’s arrived with 5x MH-60M Blackhawks and 2x MH-47G Chinooks from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment.
Aircrafts from RAF Mildenhall were common visitors throughout including CV-22B Ospreys, MC-130J’s and a C-146A.
Noteable visitors were a CASA C‑295 and a CASA CN‑235, both aircraft are operated by the 427th SOS at Pope AFB
A great write up of RAF Fairford’s role can be found here