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Chilean F-16 fighter jets will be upgraded to M6.6 standard
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $177m contract to provide support for the Chilean Air Force F-16 M6.6 Operational Flight Programme and Systems Upgrade.
Dutch F-16s heading to Romania to train Ukrainian pilots
The first F-16 fighter jets that the Netherlands is donating to Ukraine will arrive at the training center in Romania within two weeks, according to Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte.
Ukrainian pilots learning to fly F-16s in Arizona
After months of negotiations, a handful of Ukrainian pilots are at long last in Arizona. They're part of the first group of Ukrainians learning how to fly the F-16 fighter jet.
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F-16 Fleet Status
F-16 fleet - Dec 1, 2023
Fleet overview:
scrapped: 204
write-off: 620
preserved: 159
stored: 583
instructional: 119
on order: 134
active: 2857
Changes '22/'23:
Fleet adds: 16
Fleet drop: 107
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Today in F-16 history
1 Dec 1992
Greece orders 40 F-16s (Peace Xenia II).
Dec 1998
Worlwide F-16 fleet exceeds eight million flight hours.
Quote of the Day
Death is just nature's way of telling you to watch your airspeed...
-- Unknown
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War Bird
USAF #81679
F-16A Block 15
The only F-16 from the Thunderbirds ever to be made combat ready. The Tbirds are required to be able to make their F-16s combat ready within 72 hours. In 1988, this was put to the test. The ground crew pulled it off with time to spare, except for the paint scheme. The jet flew a combat training sortie and afterwards received the nickname 'War Bird'.
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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Rudderbutt"

After trying to fly a biplane by the rudder and not using the ailerons. Quite funny when you consider I had never flown a plane before . They were going to call me crabby because of the way the plane was flown sideways and I said well it workes on the ground why not in the air.
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Latest Viper Drivers to reach 1K - 6K flying hours:
6,000 Hours 6,000 Hrs
2008-05-02
Lt.Col. Mike "Brillo" Brill
| 466 FS | 421 FS  
5,000 Hours 5,000 Hrs
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| 134 FS | 134 FS | 125 FS  
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2,000 Hours 2,000 Hrs
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SrA. Dylan Russell (added: 10 Nov 2023)
301 FW | 301 FW
SMSgt. Tom Dummermuth (added: 29 Dec 2006)
175 FS | 195 FS | 152 FS | 152 FS | 152 FS | 175 FS | 175 FS | 175 FS
TSgt. Timothy Austin (added: 2 Nov 2023)
138 FW | 138 FW
MSgt. Mike Alphonse (added: 14 Mar 2012)
310 FS | 310 FS | 61 FS | 177 FW | 177 FW | 195 FS
SSgt. Scott Pecikonis (added: 31 Jan 2017)
301 FW | F-4
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