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F-35A's 18-5365 and 18-5366 were seen flying on 5 October.
F-35C 169704 was seen flying already on 31 July. First picture to appear just now.

F-35B 169691 was seen flying earlier today. First sighting.

18-5419 was flying yesterday as well.

Greets,

No, the first B of Lot 12 was 169680 (BF-95). 169702 wasn't the first C of Lot 11 either, that was 169631 (CF-36). It was the first of the additional 4 added to Lot 11. Greets, Ok, so there were no FY2017 LRIP 11 Congressional Aid Package B's? Yes there were. Basic Lot 11 were 22 B's (BF-71 till BF...

Order for five F-35A and one F-35B in LRIP XIV https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/italy-procures-6-f-35-jets-for-368-million/ According to my knowledge, the F-35As are AL-22/AL-26 and the F-35B is BL-06 Hans van Herk AL18/22 BL06 Those Italians keep bugging us. Thought these were going to be AL-17 til...

Melchior Timmers wrote: So that's the first of 20 B's in FY2018 LRIP 12?
Only 17 buno's 'fit' between 169684 and 169702 (1st C of LRIP 11)

No, the first B of Lot 12 was 169680 (BF-95).
169702 wasn't the first C of Lot 11 either, that was 169631 (CF-36). It was the first of the additional 4 added to Lot 11.

Greets,

sdamico wrote:BF-100 (169685) flew (first flight?) 5 Jun 20

SD

First flight was on May 14th.

Greets,

Some more news. Israeli '933' is confirmed as '5433' meaning 18-5433. So these jets will be 18-5433 till 18-5438. This also means there is a 12 airframe gap between Turkey and Israel (how conveniant). Not confirmed yet, but this most probably means the South Korean jets are 18-5421 till 18-5432. Gre...

20-022 is marked. So my best guess is that it was 20-023. Other than the ROKAF roundel it had no tail number visible at all. 20-024 on the other hand was fully marked. Most probably. And for my earlier remark, South Korea has 12 jets in Lot 12 (as mentioned in this thread on numerous occasions in t...

South Korean unmarked (either 20-022 or 20-023) and also 20-024 seen flying at Fort Worth on May 29th. '23' and '24' are number 7 and 8 of this year, with South Korea 'only' having 6 on order in Lot 12 (as far as we know). ????

Greets,

Just found something on LRIP XII 119 aircraft, but missing exact numbers for USMC and USN Australia 15x (A35-019/-033, AU-19/33, FMS 18-5390/5404) Denmark 2x (L-001/002, Ax-01/02, FMS unknown) Italy 3x (MM7362/AL-12, FMS 17-5287 also reported as LRIP XI ??, MMxxxx/AL-13, FMS 18-xxxx, MM7453/BL-03, ...

tally wrote:First Flight AF-240 (18-5349/VT, 134 FS) Apr 29, 2020.
Also noted today was AF-239 (18-5348/WA, 6 WPS). I have note seen this one prior but definitely was not a first flight.

Tally.

18-5348 f/f was on April 27th.

Greets,

18-5347 seen flying yesterday at NAS Fort Worth.

Greets,

tally wrote:First Flight AM-24 (5385), Apr7, 2020.

Tally.

Is AM-23.

Greets,

First Norwegian flew yesterday. Serial 5384! Means they are in front of the Australian batch. Also means the USAF FY 'window' narrows down from 18-5341 till 18-5383 at the most if you don't take into account any Italians.

Greets,