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Exercise Cobra Warrior 26-1 will take place at various bases in the United Kingdom between 16 and 27 March 2026. Besides the main bases of this years event (RAF Coningsby & RAF Waddington) we also intend to visit several other interesting air basis in the area. These include Barkston Heath, RAF Cranwell, RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall. There are also a number of nice museums in the area that we can visit if the weather is not so good. However, for this edition, we’d like to start a little further afield on Monday, at RAF Shawbury and RAF Valley. These bases are located on the west coast of the UK and house RAF training helicopters (Juno & Jupiter) and aircraft (Hawk & Texan), types you don’t normally see very often.
We intend to go there for about a week, from 22-28 March 2026, with a minibus from The Netherlands and cross the Channel with a ferry from Calais to Dover. We can pick you up along the route. You can take a small stepladder with you and because of the small group we will have a lot of flexibility.
The following participating aircraft are thought to participate, a number of transport/tanker aircraft will also operate from their home base.
| British Army | Wildcat | 1 Regt AAC |
| Royal Air Force | Atlas | 30 Sqn, 70 Sqn |
| C-17 | 99 Sqn | |
| Chinook | 18 Sqn | |
| Tutor | 6 FTS | |
| Typhoon | 1 Sqn, 6 Sqn, 9 Sqn, 11 Sqn | |
| Voyager | 10/101 Sqn | |
| Royal Navy | Wildcat | 815 NAS |
| German Air Force | EF2000 | TLG74 |
| NATO | E-3A | NAEWF&CF |
| Polish Air Force | F-16 | 3 Sqn |
| USAF | E-3G | 552 ACW |
| Draken Aviation | nn |
We have done a similar tour already a couple of times before, see below.
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