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F-35 Deliveries Temporarily Paused to Inspect Damage to Lightning Protection System

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, June 24th, 2020

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F-35 Deliveries Temporarily Paused to Inspect Damage to Lightning Protection System

Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II at the 2018 Paris Air Show. Photo: Lockheed Martin

The contractor of the U.S. military’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter paused deliveries in early June for three weeks to investigate damage on the system that protects the aircraft’s engine from lightning strikes, but has since resumed deliveries. Damage was discovered on a tube of an F-35A’s Onboard Inert Gas Generation System, or OBIGGS, during a routine maintenance check at Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. F-35 manufacturer Lockheed Martin [LMT] said in a June 24 statement…

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