Restoring the salvaged 'Franken-bird' F-35A Lightning fighter jet cost an estimated $6 million, a fraction of the $80 million ...

A U.S. Air Force pilot experienced an “inflight malfunction” with his F-35 fighter jet and crashed on Tuesday during a training exercise. The pilot was ...

Combining major structures from separate F-35s to build a fully operational plane is an Air Force first. Both these damaged ...

Marines based in North Carolina recently trained to recover a damaged, downed F-35B Lightning II before a worst-case scenario ...

Franken-bird”: The US Air Force has used sections from two damaged aircraft to restore an F-35 to combat-ready status.

The US Air Force has successfully restored an F-35A Lightning II by merging two damaged jets, saving over $74 million.

Like the fictional Frankenstein's work, it took some creativity to transform the two damaged F-35 Lightning IIs into a single and operational fighter.

The F-35 Lightning II is a highly advanced fighter jet, but that didn't stop Elon Musk from critiquing it as one that would ...

An F-35C of VX-9 assigned to the United Operational Test Team at Edwards AFB performed the first dual drop of externally ...

An Air Force pilot was forced to eject after their F-35 fighter jet crashed in a fiery explosion during a training exercise ...

After more than a year of work, engineers and maintenance experts from the US Air Force (USAF) and Lockheed Martin have successfully flown a regenerated F-35A fighter formed by splicing together ...

Heather Wilburn Fleet Readiness Center EastMARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. – How does a Marine Corps unit train ...