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Lockheed Resumes F-35 Deliveries After One-Month Suspension

By Marc Selinger

Friday, November 3rd, 2017

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Lockheed Martin [LMT] has resumed delivering F-35 Lightning IIs to its U.S. and foreign customers after a production quality problem halted those transfers for a month.The problem surfaced when a small amount of corrosion was found under a fuselage panel of an F-35A, the fighter jet's conventional-takeoff-and-landing variant, during routine maintenance at Hill Air Force Base in Utah, the company said in a statement Nov. 1.After investigating the matter with the U.S. Department of Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), Lockheed…

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