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 Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company delivered the first in a new lot of modernized F-16s to the US Air Force in May. The new aircraft will be used to sustain the Air Force’s overall multirole fighter force structure. The fourteen F-16s, procured in 2000 and 2001, will be delivered at a rate of one or two per month through December 2002. The aircraft, the latest Block 50 single-seat versions with General Electric F110-GE-129 engines, feature the modular mission computer, color cockpit displays and recording equipment, on-board oxygen generating system, and the APX-113 advanced electronic interrogator/ transponder. These production aircraft have common configurations with the Block 50 F-16s being modified in the first phase of the USAF F-16 Common Configuration Implementation Program. The first of the CCIP-modified aircraft was delivered last January. |
