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F-35A Lightning II arrives for first Middle East deployment
The Air Force's fifth generation multi-role aircraft arrived for its first deployment to the Middle East on April 15. The F-35A Lightning IIs are from active duty 388th and reserve 419th Fighter Wings at Hill Air Force Base, Utah.

JASDF F-35A crashes during training flight
The JASDF have announced that one of their new F-35A fighters has gone missing during a training flight off the coast of Northern Japan on April 9th. The status of the pilot is unknown.

Triple Nickels kick-off exercise African Lion 2019 with a roar
Airmen from the 31st Fighter Wing and Royal Moroccan Air Force conduct F-16 aviation training during exercise African Lion 2019, March 25-April 3, at Ben Guerir Air Base.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - Apr 23, 2019
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 149 write-off: 609 preserved: 149 stored: 615 instructional: 103 on order: 0 active: 2944
	Changes '18/'19: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 35
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Today in F-16 history

23 Apr 1994
VISTA/F-16 resumed testing.

Quote of the Day

Airspeed: Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a Navy pilot.

-- An aviation dictionary

F-16 Hall of Fame

Lost in the Desert

USAF #79343
F-16A Block 10

Attrition mostly takes place in the early years of an F-16. This particular F-16, a USAF F-16A built in 1979 crashed 3 years after it rolled off the production line. The tail can still be found at the crash site in the Nevada desert.

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Barf"

I'm a civilian, was riding in the trunk of a D/mod, trying to get my 9g+ pin. Got to 9.2 on the meter, made it all the way back to the chocks too....

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Latest Viper Drivers to reach 1K - 6K flying hours:

	6,000 Hrs 2008-05-02	Lt.Col. Mike "Brillo" Brill \| 466 FS \| 421 FS
	5,000 Hrs 2014-01-04	Lt.Col. Robert "T. Rex" Carpenter , Jr \| 162 FW \| 148 FS \| 1 sqn
	4,000 Hrs 2019-01-16	Col. Bradley "Divot" Jackson \| 179 FS \| 179 FS
	3,000 Hrs 2018-06-08	Lt.Col. Grant "Goo" Gooch 124 FS \| 124 FS \| 182 FS
	2,000 Hrs 2018-10-24	Maj. Nicolas "Harly" Maes 349 sqn \| OCU
	1,000 Hrs 2018-11-29	Lt.Col. Ronald "Pastar" Tong 145 sqn
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