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Hill welcomes F-35 workload
The first F-35A Lightning II to arrive at Hill AFB sits on display in front of a hangar the morning of September 20th, 2013. Hill, Lockheed Martin and Utah elected officials and community members gathered for a ceremony to commemorate the beginning of F-35 depot maintenance at Hill AFB. [USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd]
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...]
The Netherlands buy 37 F-35 jets to replace F-16s
Two F-35B Joint Strike Fighters conduct the first aerial refueling of its kind with a KC-130J Hercules in the sky above Eglin AFB on October 2nd, 2012. [Photo by Cpl. Brian Adam Jone]
Sep 17, 2013 - The Dutch defense ministry stated today that it has formally selected the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from Lockheed Martin to replace its aging fleet of F-16s. [Read more...]
New F-35 depot maintenance workload arrives at Hill AFB
USAF F-35A #10-5009 is the first Lightning II ever to land at Hill AFB, arriving on September 13th, 2013. The multirole, fifth-generation fighter arrived from the 422nd TES, Nellis AFB and is scheduled to undergo post-production modifications at the Ogden ALC. [USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd]
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...]
809 Naval Air Squadron to Fly F-35
809 Naval Air Squadron
Sep 09, 2013 - 809 Naval Air Squadron (NAS), whose motto is simply ‘Immortal’, is to be reformed to operate the stealth fifth generation aircraft that will fly off the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth Class carriers from 2018. [Read more...]
Navy launches first local F-35C sortie
The first F-35C Lightning II sortie takes off from the USN F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron VFA-101 at Eglin AFB on August 14th, 2013. [USAF photo by Samuel King Jr.]
Aug 15, 2013 - Sailors from U.S. Navy F-35 Strike Fighter Squadron-101 made history completing the first local flight in the F-35C Lightning II carrier variant on August 14, 2013. [Read more...]
Eglin F-35 fleet exceeds 2K sorties
Gunnery Sgt. Matthew Smith, a maintainer with VMFAT-501, marshals in the first Marine variant F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter to arrive at Eglin AFB on January 11th, 2012. [USAF photo by Maj. Karen Roganov]
Aug 15, 2013 - Airmen and Marines assigned to the F-35 Integrated Training Center at the 33rd Fighter Wing here have consistently flown successful training sorties and generated their 2,000th sortie on August 13 with an instructor pilot of the Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron-501 (VMFAT-501), at the controls. [Read more...]
The Dambusters of 617 Sqn - to become first frontline RAF Squadron
On July 19th, 2012 the United Kingdom took delivery of its first F-35 Lightning II jet during a ceremony at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth. The jet (BK-1) is an F-35B STOVL model. [Lockheed Martin photo]
Jul 18, 2013 - The world famous 'Dambusters' of 617 Squadron will become the first RAF frontline squadron to get the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. [Read more...]
Additional F-35s coming to Luke
F-35A (AF-6, 07-0744) spotted during moonrise on ramp 8 at Edwards AFB on March 7th, 2012. [Photo by Matthew Mckee]
Jul 15, 2013 - The Air Force announced June 27 that Luke Air Force Base has been chosen as the location for 72 additional F-35A Lightning II aircraft, bringing the eventual total number of the fifth-generation fighters expected to 144. [Read more...]
Navy Receives First F-35C Lightning II
Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Tabert, F-35C Lightning II USN instructor pilot from VFA-101 lands this afternoon at Eglin AFB after a two hour flight from Fort Worth. VFA-101 received the Navy's first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft from Lockheed Martin. [USAF photo by Maj. Karen Roganov]
Jun 22, 2013 - The U.S. Navy's Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 101 received the Navy's first F-35C Lightning II carrier variant aircraft from Lockheed Martin today at the squadron's home at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. [Read more...]
F-35A completes 1st in-flight missile launch
Lt.Col. George 'Boxer' Schwartz flies F-35A AF-01 conventional take-off and landing aircraft during the first in-flight missile launch of an AIM-120 over the Point Mugu Sea test range on June 5th, 2013. [Lockheed photo]
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...]
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