Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II Program exceeds 5,000 flight hours
The F-35 Lightning II program has surpassed 5,000 flight hours. This milestone was reached by the combined F-35 System Development and Demonstration (SDD) aircraft flying at Edwards Air Force Base, and Naval Air Station Patuxent River, and the training aircraft flying at Eglin Air Force Base.
All three variants, the F-35A Conventional Take-off and Landing (CTOL), the Short Take-off/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and Carrier Variant (CV), were part of the goal explained Lockheed Martin. Since the program’s first flight in December 2006, F-35s have flown 3,464 times. This total includes 91 flights from the original test aircraft, AA-1; 2,510 SDD test flights; and 863 production-model flights.
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