BIG AVIATION REPORT

Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 09:37:48 MT

AEROTIME · DEFENSE

FINLAND’S FIRST F-35 DELIVERY LEAVES ONE JET STRANDED IN THE AZORES...

One of the three Finnish Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighters assigned to the type’s first delivery flight to Finland remains at Lajes Air Base in the Azores, Portugal, after developing what the service described as a minor avionics fault.

SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.

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