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Lockheed Martin awarded F-16 Depot Sustainment Program
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $900 million contract to provide sustainment support and depot-overflow services for F-16 aircraft.

Guard F-16 crashes in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 crashed in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula Tuesday night, unfortunately the pilot did not survive.

Luke pilot reaches a rare milestone, surpasses 3k flying hours in F-16
As of November 23, 2020, only 295 pilots worldwide could claim to have surpassed three thousand flying hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. That number is now 296.

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F-16 Fleet Status

F-16 fleet - Jan 25, 2021
	Fleet overview: scrapped: 152 write-off: 617 preserved: 153 stored: 610 instructional: 107 on order: 1 active: 2916
	Changes '19/'20: Fleet adds: 0 Fleet drop: 22
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Today in F-16 history

25 Jan 1982
Egyptian Air Force accepts first F-16 from Peace Vector I order.
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25 Jan 1991
Bahraini F-16s fly their first mission in Operation Desert Storm, and begin offensive operations on the following days.

25 Jan 1991
Egyptian Air Force acepts first F-16 from Peace Vector III order.
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Quote of the Day

Maybe it's sex appeal, but there's something about an airplane that drives investors crazy...

-- Alfred Kahn, the 'father of airline deregulation'

F-16 Hall of Fame

First USAF F-16

USAF #80001
F-16A Block 1

This F-16 was the first to roll off the General Dynamics production line at Fort Worth, TX. It was delivered to the USAF in August of 1978 and thus became the very first production F-16 to be delivered worldwide. Initial deliveries went to the 388th TFW at Hill AFB, where initial pilot training on the type was performed.

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F-16 Forum

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	The comprehensive HG5 topic	viperimages
	JASDF F-2 Update	Gamera
	85-440	dockrat
	Croatia begins evaluating new fighters	hythelday
	Fuel Flow Question	sprstdlyscott...
	F-16 drops CSDBs in test flight	basher54321

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F-22 and F-35 Forum

	Roper Hints NGAD Could Replace F-35; Why...	KamenRiderBlade
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	India and the F-35?	spazsinbad
	LRASM sensor production 2017	eloise
	Inside the F-35s cockpit	quicksilver

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Military Aviation Forum

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From C-130.net

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Callsign of the day

Callsign "Hangstart"

This guy stuttered all the time

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Latest Viper Drivers to reach 1K - 6K flying hours:

	6,000 Hrs 2008-05-02	Lt.Col. Mike "Brillo" Brill \| 466 FS \| 421 FS
	5,000 Hrs 2014-01-04	Lt.Col. Robert "T. Rex" Carpenter , Jr \| 162 FW \| 148 FS \| 1 sqn
	4,000 Hrs 2019-01-16	Col. Bradley "Divot" Jackson \| 179 FS \| 179 FS
	3,000 Hrs 2020-11-24	Maj. Sean "Double" Rassas \| 69 FS \| 944 FW
	2,000 Hrs 2020-02-27	Lt.Col. Tse Chao "Ricky Bobby" Ying 17 TFG \| 21 TFG
	1,000 Hrs 2019-10-25	Capt. Ahmed "Cougar" Abou Zeid 68 TFS
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