F-35 “Franken-bird”

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F-35 maintenance experts at Hill Air Force Base in Utah are taking on a seemingly impossible task—stitching two mishap damaged aircraft together into a restored, fully operational F-35A Lighting II. Led by the F-35 Joint Program Office, the project requires a “dream team” of uniquely qualified individuals from the JPO, the 388th Fighter Wing, the Ogden Air Logistics Complex and Lockheed Martin. “This is a first for the F-35 program and a very exciting project,”...

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