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RSAF joins MAple Leaf training exercise
Jun 12, 2001 - The RSAF is in Canada for a massive 13-day air exercise at Cold Lake, Alberta, which began on Sunday. Singapore is one of 11 countries particpating in exercise Maple Leaf. [Read more...]
Expanding IFF
May 08, 2001 - Lockheed Martin has awarded contracts worth more than $33 million to BAE Systems for continued production of advanced identification friend or foe (IFF) avionics systems for the F-16. [Read more...]
Italy to acquire USAF F-16s
Mar 15, 2001 - On March 15, Italy signed an agreement for the lease of 34 F-16s from the U.S. Air Force inventory and a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) for aircraft support and services. [Read more...]
JASSM proves deadly accurate in first development test flight
Jan 31, 2001 - Test teams successfully put the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile imaging infrared target seeker system through its paces recently, clearing another major hurdle toward it entering the nation's precision-guided munitions arsenal. [Read more...]
Return of Danish F-16B ET-204
Jan 12, 2001 - The very first Danish F-16: F-16B ET-204 has returned to a Danish squadron, being the first to undergo the MLU in the USA. The aircraft spent a total of seven years abroad, doing many tests including launching the first AMRAAM from a european F-16MLU. [Read more...]
F-16 test aircraft completes long distinguished career
Jan 10, 2001 - F-16 serial number #75-0750 has completed a distinguished career as an advanced technology test aircraft for more than 22 years. It is best known for its service as the Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI)/F-16 technology demonstrator since the early 1980s. [Read more...]
AFTI/F-16 History
Jan 10, 2001 - The history of F-16 #75-0750 is summarized by the following programs/projects it supported. [Read more...]
USAF purchases additional Lockheed Martin F-16s
Jan 03, 2001 - The U.S. Air Force has placed an order with Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company for four additional F-16 aircraft that were funded in the Fiscal Year 2001 Defense Appropriations Act. The contract was finalized on Dec. 26, 2000. [Read more...]
Investigators: F-16 Went 480 mph
Nov 17, 2000 - An Air Force F-16 involved in a fatal collision with a small plane was flying too fast and hadn't made contact with air traffic controllers, federal authorities said. [Read more...]
US resumes Japan flight operations
Nov 15, 2000 - The U.S. Air Force resumed flight operations Thursday at an air base in northern Japan after completing extensive safety checks following a collision of two F-16C fighter jets. Flying operations of the two squadrons of F-16 aircraft at Misawa Air Base resumed after all planes met the requirements of the stringent safety inspection. [Read more...]
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