Ian Harding spent much of June in the UK's West Country to witness Joe Biden's first visit to the nation as the US President for the G7 Summit, which - as expected - required a lot of airlift support.
We always knew that Joe Biden’s initial presidential visit to the United Kingdom would take place in June. His attendance at the 47th G7 Summit 2021, held in Carbis Bay, St Ives, Cornwall, on June 11-13, 2021, was always going to involve a lot of military aviation hardware. And so it proved.
Veil of secrecy
For days prior to the event much of the aviation enthusiast community had tried to second-guess where the US military aircraft, airlifting all the President’s men, would land. No one suspected that Exeter Airport in Devon would be the final destination for much of them.