The Air Force Academy plans to open a facility in Pueblo, Colo., joining forces with the Air Force’s Doss Aviation-run initial flight screening program. The academy conducts its own IFT at the school’s airfield but plans to use the Pueblo facility to handle its overflow.
It'll take up to 18 months for Lockheed Martin to deliver the 100 or so F-35s that went directly from production line to storage, awaiting the completion of Tech Refresh 3 testing. Customers haven't complained about the order in which the backlog is being delivered.