U.S. Air Force F-35As Spent Less Time Flying In 2021

F-35A inspection
Credit: USAF
Annual flying hours per aircraft dropped for the U.S. Air Force’s F-35A fleet in 2021, erasing five years of steady progress and falling even further below a planned benchmark, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported April 7. The conventional-takeoff-and-landing version of the Lockheed Martin...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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