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The millionth F-16 Fighting Falcon flying training hour at Luke AFB was reached March 13, 2013. F-16s first touched down at Luke AFB on Dec. 6, 1982. To date, Luke has graduated 18,164 F-16 fighter pilots. Approximately 2,000 F-16 hours are flown a month by Luke pilots and...

More than 250 Airmen and 14 F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 510th Fighter Squadron returned to Aviano Air Base, Italy after a training mission to Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, Mar. 27, 2013. [USAF photo by A1C Matthew Lotz]
See also: 510th FS train with Spanish counterparts

Capt. Corydon Jerch, 510th FS pilot, exits his aircraft after returning to Aviano AB after a training mission in Zaragoza AB on March 27, 2013. [USAF photo by A1C Matthew Lotz]
See also: 510th FS train with Spanish counterparts

Capt. James Steel, 29, from the 77th FS [USAF photo]
See also: Shaw pilot identified in Afghanistan crash

Capt. James Steel, 77th FS pilot, stands in front of F-16C block #91-0368 in Afghanistan after a combat mission on November 12, 2012. Capt. Steel was killed April 3, 2013, after his aircraft crashed returning to base from a CAS mission. [USAF photo by Lt. Col. Tad Clark]
See also: Once a Gambler, always a Gambler

HAF F-16C Block 52+

The third UK Lockheed Martin F-35 BK-3 (ZM137) speeds down the runway at NAS Fort Worth JRB, embarking on its first flight with test pilot Alan Norman at the controls on April 1, 2013. [Lockheed Martin photo by Randy A Crites]

The third F-35B for the UK was flown for the first time at NAS JRB Fort Worth, Texas, on April 1, 2013. Lockheed Martin Chief Test Pilot Alan Norman flew the aircraft (UK serial ZM137) on the initial flight. [Photo by Carl Richards]

USAF F-16C block 50 #91-0368 from 79 FS deployed from Shaw AFB, taxi to the flightline at Bagram Air Field, on April 6, 2013.[USAF photo by SrA Chris Willis]