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First Delivery of F-35 with TR-3 Expected Between April and June Next Year

Frank Wolfe

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

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First Delivery of F-35 with TR-3 Expected Between April and June Next Year

U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the 421st Expeditionary Fighter Squadron taxi on a runway in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility on July 25 (U.S. Air Force Photo)

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said in an 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on Sept. 6 that the company expects to deliver the first F-35 in a Technology Refresh-3 (TR-3) configuration between April and June next year. "As a result, we now expect to deliver 97 aircraft in 2023 (all in the TR-2 configuration), which we do not currently anticipate will impact our 2023 financial outlook," the 8-K said. "We are producing F-35s at a rate of 156 per year…

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