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First Foreign-Built F-35B Rolls Off Italian Assembly Line

Friday, May 5th, 2017

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First Foreign-Built F-35B Rolls Off Italian Assembly Line

The first Lockheed Martin [LMT] short-takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B assembled outside the United States rolled out of the Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility in Italy on May 5. The Italian FACO is owned by the Italian Ministry of Defense and is operated by Leonardo in conjunction with Lockheed. It has a current workforce of more than 800 skilled personnel engaged in full assembly of the conventional take-off and landing F-35A and F-35B aircraft variants. The facility also produces…

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