{"id":270528,"date":"2025-08-22T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/military-british-plane-flying-repeatedly-california-arizona\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T17:00:16","slug":"why-this-british-military-plane-is-repeatedly-flying-over-california-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=270528","title":{"rendered":"Why This British Military Plane Is Repeatedly Flying Over California &amp; Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A British Airbus A400M turboprop airlifter has been seen flying repeated missions over California and Arizona in mid-2025. This is the same aircraft seen in the 2015 movie Mission: Impossible \u2013 Rogue Nation, where <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2381\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tom-cruise-a400m-stunt\/\" >Tom Cruise is seen performing a dangerous stunt clinging onto the side of the aircraft as it took off and climbed<\/a><\/span>. At the time of filming, the A400M Atlas was brand new, having just entered service with the French Arm\u00e9e de l&#8217;Air et de l&#8217;Espace (Air and Space Force) in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An RAF Airbus A400M recently spent six weeks in the United States, likely on a training mission. This is common between US allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7458,396,411,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a400m","category-aircraft","category-royal-air-force","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270529,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270528\/revisions\/270529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}