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First Danish F-35 handed over.
Today the first Danish F-35 (#L-001) was handed over to the Danish Flyvevåbnet in a ceremony at Lockheed. This markss the formal start of the Danish F-35 program albeit the jet was already flying in January conducting numerous rigorous tests at NAS Fort Worth.

Two Belgian F-16s intercept Russian bombers over North Sea
Two Belgian F-16s took off on Monday morning from Florennes Air Base to intercept Russian bombers approaching the Dutch airspace over the North Sea. The Russian aircraft were approaching Dutch airspace.

Romania's last F-16 delivered
Today the last Romanian F-16 under the Peace Carpathian II program was delivered. F-16A #1615 left Monte Real AB in the early morning to make a stop-over at Aviano AB for its final destination at Feteşti AB.

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F-16 fleet - May 14, 2021
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 155 write-off: 617 preserved: 155 stored: 575 instructional: 109 on order: 129 active: 2938
	Changes '20/'21: Fleet adds: 129 Fleet drop: 35
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Today in F-16 history

14 May 1992
First production F-16D block 50 (#90-0834) is delivered to the USAF.

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F-35 Inlet Installed

USAF #83120
F-16C Block 25

Modified inlet as an X-35 test bed with General Electric F110-GE-129 engine. This inlet resembles the airflows that are created when flying with the X-35. The flight test program consisted of twelve flights flown in nine days in December 1996.

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