Lightning Strikes Twice For Canadian Fighter Selection

Tony Osborne March 31, 2022
F-35 in flight
With selection by Canada, the F-35 has now won every open fighter contest in which it has been offered. A formal order from Ottawa for 88 aircraft is expected before year-end.
Credit: Tony Osborne/AW&ST
Canada has chosen Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, again. More than a decade after the administration of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper first selected the aircraft in a sole-source contract, the contest relaunched by the Trudeau administration has come to the same conclusion, the F...
Tony Osborne

Based in London, Tony covers European defense programs. Prior to joining Aviation Week in November 2012, Tony was at Shephard Media Group where he was deputy editor for Rotorhub and Defence Helicopter magazines.

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