Question follow-through · 37700
F-35 Aircraft
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average monthly flying hours are for each F-35 by airframe since they entered full operational capability.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 17 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the average monthly flying hours are for each F-35 by airframe since they entered full operational capability.
17 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Mar 2025
Answer published
Average monthly flying hours of individual airframes is not a metric that is collated and as the information is not held in this format it could only be provided at disproportionate cost. The metric that is collated is the total airframe hours since deliv...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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