NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. (April 24, 2024) A C-130 Hercules refuels a Marine Corps CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift helicopter while transporting a Navy F-35C Lightning II airframe from the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Naval Air Station Patuxent River to a Navy unit at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, April 24, 2024. The inoperable airframe, without mission and propulsion systems, outer wings, or additional equipment, is being transported to the Prototype, Manufacturing and Test Department of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst for use in future emergency recovery systems testing. (U.S. Navy photo by Kyra Helwick)