The F-35A Lightning II, also known as “Frankenjet” due to its construction from two separate, damaged aircraft, has returned home to Utah’s Hill Air Force Base.

The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned ... The AF-27 experienced an engine fire in 2014 at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, while the AF-211 had a nose landing gear malfunction in 2020.

The tinkering began in 2022 when the F-35 Joint Program Office collaborated with Lockheed Martin and the 388th Fighter Wing Maintenance Group to salvage two damaged jets. The AF-27 experienced an ...

The U.S. Air Force recently unveiled a fully operational F-35 fighter jet built from the ... the front half of a jet damaged in a 2014 fire at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida with the rear of ...

Once fully operational, both F-35 squadrons will replace ... carrying nuclear munitions to the British air base. As the Cold War progressed, the Air Force deployed increasingly more forces at ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force ... F-35s to Japan in two groups, with the deployment of F-35As at Kadena Air Base in January and F-35Bs at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in March. The F-35 ...

Currently, the British military operates approximately 146 fighter aircraft, including 111 Eurofighter Typhoons and 35 F-35B Lightning IIs. The Royal Air Force appears to have decided to purchase ...

HILL AIR FORCE ... at Florida’s Eglin AFB in 2014. And the Frankenjet is fully operational, now back at the Air Force’s largest combat-coded F-35A wing at Hill Air Force Base.

The Hellenic Air Force will begin F-35 pilot training by September, with 14 pilots and 60 technicians heading to the US.

The U.S. Air Force reactivates the 23rd Electronic Warfare Squadron to enhance electromagnetic warfare capabilities.

The F-35s are operational from 48 bases around the world. Credit: Lockheed Martin Aeronautics/PRNewswire. Lockheed Martin has delivered the final F-35A aircraft to ...