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Dutch F-35 OT contingent prepping to head overseas
May 16, 2016 - Several media members and Royal Netherlands Air Force representatives stopped by on May 10 at Edwards Air Force Base to cover a big story. [Read more...]
F-35 completes first live fire missile test
Oct 31, 2013 - The F-35 has launched an AIM-120 air-to-air missile marking the first live-fire missile test in the program. [Read more...]
F-35 Lightning II Program Surpasses 10,000 Flight Hours
Oct 09, 2013 - The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II program continues its operational maturation, surpassing 10,000 flight hours in September. More than half of the total hours were accumulated in just the past 11 months. [Read more...]
F-35: New fighter creates new culture for 21st Century and beyond
Sep 26, 2013 - She didn't have a smudge on her. Not a leak found anywhere. She even had that "new jet smell." Skies were blue, everything was perfect. [Read more...]
Hill welcomes F-35 workload
Sep 20, 2013 - Several hundred people gathered in hangar 237 to witness the first F-35A Lightning II which arrived for depot level maintenance during a ceremony hosted by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander, Maj. Gen. H. Brent Baker Sr. [Read more...]
New F-35 depot maintenance workload arrives at Hill AFB
Sep 16, 2013 - The Ogden Air Logistics Complex commander, Maj. Gen. H. Brent Baker Sr., will host an F-35A Lightning II welcome ceremony at 10 a.m. Sept. 20 to officially commemorate the beginning of depot maintenance at Hill. [Read more...]
F-35A completes 1st in-flight missile launch
Jun 06, 2013 - An F-35A conventional takeoff and landing aircraft completed the first in-flight missile launch of an AIM-120 over the Point Mugu Sea Test Range, June 5. [Read more...]
F-35A instructor pilots qualify in aerial refueling
May 22, 2013 - The initial cadre of F-35A Lightning II instructor pilots qualified in aerial refueling last week, adding another capability for student pilot training at the 33rd Fighter Wing's F-35 Integrated Training Center. [Read more...]
First international student pilot flies F-35
Mar 21, 2013 - The first international student aviator at the 33rd Fighter Wing, training to be an F-35B Lightning II instructor pilot, completed his first sortie in the joint strike fighter here March 19. [Read more...]
Nellis accepts delivery of F-35 with ceremony
Mar 20, 2013 - In the Thunderbird Hangar filled to capacity, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Lofgren, U.S. Air Force Warfare Center commander, formally accepted delivery of three F-35A Lightning IIs March 19. [Read more...]
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