Navy Doubles Number Of Joint Strike Fighter Aircraft Residing At FL Base

By Lee Hudson / May 1, 2015 at 11:16 AM
The Navy will temporarily double the number of Joint Strike Fighter aircraft it has at an Air Force base in Florida while a facility is waiting to be built in Northern California to house the jets, according to a spokeswoman. On April 23, the Air Force signed an addendum to a June 26, 2014, record of decision for the "Final F-35 Beddown Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement" that approved the Navy's request to add 15 F-35C carrier variant "Backup Aircraft Inventory"...

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