B-21 First Flight Now Set For 2023

Brian Everstine May 17, 2022
B-21
Credit: U.S. Air Force rendering
The U.S. Air Force now expects the first flight of the Northrop Grumman B-21 bomber in 2023 as the service prepares for a public rollout later this year. The Air Force announced in early March that ground testing has begun on the first B-21, with the sixth aircraft beginning assembly at Northrop’s...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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