News Archive

Greek officials said that 35 of the 60 F-16 Block 52 fighters that were ordered have arrived. They are forming a squadron for deployment in the Aegean Sea and many of the aircraft will be based on the Island of Crete....

Hill Air Force Base's 388th Fighter Wing celebrated the 25th anniversary of the F-16 "Fighting Falcon" today. In fact, the 388th was the first to fly the aircraft operationally, back in 1979....

The 149th Fighter Wing received 10 Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night, or LANTIRN, targeting pods that will literally put its current class of F-16 fighter pilots right on target with their training. The unit will be the first in the Air Force to graduate pilots from the F-16 basic course with targeting pod training....

Officials plan to upgrade the main runway at Terre Haute International Airport, which has not had major repairs for 15 years. The 9,025-foot-long runway was last patched in 1989 and is now in need of major repair to eliminate debris, mainly from crumbling pavement....

Anaren Microwave Inc., based in East Syracuse, has been selected to receive a contract in excess of $11.0 million from Raytheon for Digital Radio-Frequency (RF) Memory subsystems used in the Raytheon AN/ALQ-187 internal (RF) jammer. ...

Today, an Italian F-16 ADF crashed into the Mediterranean sea north of Sicily around 19.10h. The pilot managed to eject from the plane and was rescued....

Aircraft debris that washed up on a beach about six miles from Misawa Air Base belongs to a U.S. F-16DJ that crashed in the Pacific Ocean almost three years ago, base officials said Wednesday....

Col. William P. Robinson, the vice wing commander of the 150th Fighter Wing of the New Mexico Air National Guard at Kirtland AFB, retired in January after serving thirty-four years in the Air Force....

A pilot's error caused a Thunderbirds F-16C to crash shortly after takeoff during a September airshow at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The pilot ejected just before the aircraft impacted the ground....

An Israeli and U.S. firm signed an accord for the development and marketing of training and other systems relating to the F16 Fighting Falcon....

January 28 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Air Force Reserve Command's formal acceptance of the F-16 into its aircraft inventory. In February 1982, the Air Force announced that the Air Force Reserve would receive F-16s at Hill Air Force Base, Utah in 1984....

Israeli F-16's are striking Hezbollah targets in South Lebanon, as retaliation for a guerrilla attack that threatened to erupt into a border war. ...

On January 16 the 62FS at Luke AFB, AZ experienced the inadvertent jettison of an F-16D canopy. The aircraft involved was #83-1184, block 25D. The canopy contacted the vertical tail during the event, but there were no injuries to ground personnel. No other details are available at this time.
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The Turkish Air Forces Command announced that Mehmet Karakuzu, the pilot of the F-16 which crashed in Aegean Kutahya province on Friday, was found dead on Sunday. ...

Six pilots and about 155 support personnel are on their way to an undisclosed country in the Arabian Gulf for a special training exercise with local Arab air forces....

Teams are searching for the wreckage of an F-16 Fighting Falcon which crashed near Tavsanli town of western Kutahya province after it took off from Main Jet Base in northwestern Balikesir province on Friday. ...

Radstone Technology has been selected by the Goodrich Corporation to supply computer products for the Poland Peace Sky F-16 reconnaissance program....

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. will be cutting 700 to 1,000 jobs from the F-16 Fighting Falcon program over the next few months as the Fort Worth-based company moves out of the development and initial production phases for the aircraft. ...

The Boeing Co.'s St. Louis operations have been awarded a $37.3 million contract for a Low Rate Initial Production 4 (LRIP 4) of the joint helmet mounted cueing system....

Gen. Hal Hornburg, head of the Air Force's Air Combat Command, spent on Tuesday an hour in an F-15 over Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada using the Sniper XR Advance Targeting Pod in a variety of tactical situations....

Alliant Precision Fuze Co. has been awarded a $8 million contract modification to provide for 7,078 additional DSU-33B/B proximity sensors. This is a nose-mounted Radio Frequency Proximity sensor used on the M117 and MK-80 series general-purpose bombs and the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM). ...

A group of Air National Guard F-16 fighters, recently re-engined with new Pratt & Whitney (P&W) F100- PW-229 engines, has achieved a year of flying in which the engines have performed flawlessly - a condition known as "Code One."...

After the news, in October and December of last year, that the Belgian military would again see some major drawbacks, the Belgian government has decided on January 9th on the investment plan for the next 4 years....

Cannon Air Force Base will have two of its squadrons leave base this month. The 524th Fighter Squadron left Saturday to deploy to Air Warrior, a training exercise at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, until Jan. 23....

Lockheed Martin Aerospace sends more employees to Holloman Air Force Base who will stay there over the next two years for testing F-16 Block 60 in collaboration with the 46th Test Group. ...

United Technologies, Connecticut, is being awarded a $19.6 million contract to provide for 26,141 turbine blade set, applicable to the F100-220/220E engine. This engine is applicable to the F-15 and F-16 aircraft. ...

Poor situational awareness was the likely cause of F-16C #89-2084 which crashed in South Korea on Sept. 9th 2003, a U.S. Air Force investigation team determined....

The F-16s used by the New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing are about 20 years old and have an average of 4,500 hours in the air....

Egypt has received approval from the Bush administration to support U.S.-origin advanced navigation air pods for Cairo's F-16 fleet. The U.S. Defense Department has awarded Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control a $9.5 million contract to upgrade equipment for the LANTIRN system. ...

Pratt & Whitney's (P&W) Military Aftermarket Services (MAS) group received a follow-on contract from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide overhaul and repair support, including contractor furnished material, for their fleet of F100-PW-229 engines powering F-15E and F-16C/D fighters....

The Air Force has found quite a few defective engine parts in F-16s and has made repairs and ordered extra inspections of the aircraft to avoid future crashes....

Raytheon has been awarded a $140 million contract for production of the Joint Stand-off Weapon (JSOW) for the US Navy and US Air Force. The contract includes 315 JSOW-As (231 for the Navy and 315 for the Air Force) and 97 JSOW-Cs (for the Navy) as well as a significant number of test assets....

Failure of a turbine blade caused a 147th FW Ellington ANG F-16C to crash in an unpopulated area near Rosepine, La., Sept. 22, according to a report Air Force officials released today. ...

US vice-minister of defense, Douglas Feith, arrived in Poland on December 8th. His visit started unofficial negotiations concerning opening a US military base in Kshesin, nearby Poznañ (West Poland). ...

Since the recent terror alert change to Code Orange last month, federal agencies have launched the most drastic security measures since 9/11. F-16 fighters provided Combat Air Patrol escorts to several international flights arriving at major U.S. cities....