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Italy takes delivery Service comes in all sizes …

of first Lightning II Senior Airman Devante Williams

ROME — Italy took formal delivery Dec. 3 Children watch as Ronda Thomas, Air Force retiree, prepares to reward Reba Arriba, service dog, for completing a
of its first joint strike fighter — the first F-35 trick Dec. 2 during Storytime at the 56th Force Support Squadron Library at Luke Air Force Base. Thomas and Reba
Lightning II to be built outside the US. were special guests and demonstrated Reba’s ability to do tricks and respond to commands.

The handover took place at Italy’s Cameri Air
Base, where Italy’s joint strike fighters are being
assembled, after the aircraft made its first flight
at Cameri in September.

The Cameri final assembly and check-out line
is owned by the Italian government and oper-
ated by Italy’s Alenia Aermacchi and Lockheed
Martin.

The aircraft, AL-1, is expected to fly across
the Atlantic in February to Luke Air Force Base
in Arizona — marking the first trans-Atlantic
F-35 flight — where Italian pilots will train in it
under U.S. supervision. Enroute to the U.S., the
plane will be refueled by an Italian 767 tanker.

The FACO line at Cameri is the only one of
its kind outside the U.S. and will also serve as a
maintenance hub for European based JSFs after
being designated for the role by the Pentagon
last year.

AL-1, the first of Italy’s currently planned 90
JSFs, came off the line in March and its engines
were turned on for the first time in June.

Italian pilots are already training at Luke. Last
month, two Italian pilots completed initial F-35
training there, making the first F-35 flights under
the control of Italian pilots. The U.S. Air Force
said one of the pilots flew an Australian F-35.

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