Bare Metal: New ‘Patina’ style F-16 Camo?

U.S. Air Force photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

On 22MAR2021, a patina camo-ed F-16 took to the sky over Hill Air Force Base, Utah.  Whoops, perhaps the pilot was a little to anxious to get airborne as the F-16 was in need of new clothes after undergoing depot level rebuild.

USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd.

This was a test flight (Functional Check Flight aka Zoom flight) by the 514th Flight Test Squadron, after repairs/modifications by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex.

USAF photo by Todd Cromar.

On 16FEB2021, an ‘elected’ official was shown the bare-assed tail end of our stripped down F-16 in the Ogden Air Logistics Complex (OALC).  Hopefully the Congressman was able to control his-self.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw.

April 2020, a Secretary of the Air Force gets a tour of the OALC, notice the partially primered F-16 in the background.

USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 23JAN2019.

In January 2019, a different Secretary of the Air Force was lectured on how Utahans rebuild cockpits of naked F-16 two seaters.

Vehicle I-D: NEW CLOTHES FOR A TEXAS F-16

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