Exercise Yorknite 2025
From inside the fence
RAF Leeming
November 2025
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The Swiss Air Force - Exercise Yorknite 2025
From November 10, RAF Leeming hosted the Swiss Air Force’s annual night-flying exercise, designed to train pilots in low-level operations and over-the-North-Sea flights. First held in 2019, the exercise is now in its fifth year. A detachment of ten McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C/D Hornets was deployed, allowing three Swiss Air Force units; Fliegerstaffel 11 "Tigers," 17 "Falcons," and 18 "Panthers", to gain roughly half of their annual night-flying experience. |
| Late afternoon and evening photography from inside the fence at RAF Leeming. |
| Left to right: McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet (J-5002). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5026). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5019). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5012). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5013). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5009). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5024). |
| Hardened Aircraft Shelter 16 |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5009). |
| Hardened Aircraft Shelter 15 |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5009). |
| Left to right: F/A-18C Hornet (J-5009). |
| Left to right: Panavia Tornado F.3 (ZH552). |
