New Manufacturing Facility Completes First Bahraini Viper
The first new production Block 70 F-16 took flight from Lockheed Martin's Greenville, South Carolina facility. The flight marks the first completed F-16 made at the facility after moving production to Greenville from the older Fort Worth, Texas location. The test aircraft is the latest and greatest of the venerable old Falcon and the first of 16 jets bound for Bahrain. Demand for the F-16 may have surprised Lockheed after the move to Greenville, as global instability heats up the search for affordable, single-engine fighters around the world.