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Workers at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, joined the first F-35's thirty-five-foot-wide carbon-fiber composite skinned and metal structure wing to the aircraft's fuselage on 16 May, uniting three of the F-35's four major sections—the forward fuselage, the center fuselage, and the wing, and marking the start of F-35 final assembly activities. The F-35's aft fuselage, built by BAE Systems in Samlesbury, England, was delivered a short time later. The horizontal and vertical tails, also made by BAE Systems, were scheduled to be delivered later in the summer. The center fuselage, produced by Northrop Grumman in Palmdale, California, arrived in Fort Worth on 3 May.
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