The F-35A AF-211, 17-5269, is an F-35A assembled from parts of two damaged airframes: AF-27, which suffered an engine fire in 2014, and AF-211, grounded after a nose landing gear failure in 2020.

The recycled warplane traces its origins to 2014, when an F-35A about to take off on a training mission from Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base suffered “catastrophic engine failure,” according ...

The F-35A Lightning II “Frankenjet,” assigned to the 4th Fighter Generation Squadron, 388th Fighter Wing, returned to Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on March 26. (Capt. Nathan Poblete/U.S. Air ...

A pilot reacts next to a Norwegian F-35 fighter parked in a hangar at Keflavik Air Base in Iceland on Feb. 1, 2024. (Eyor Arnason/NTB/AFP via Getty Images) MILAN — Norway became the first F-35 ...

"The rebuilt aircraft's first flight was flown to the edges of the performance envelope, and it performed like it was fresh from the initial production line," Jeffrey Jensen, the F-35A variant ...