The 56th Operations Group flagship F-16 Fighting Falcon (84-1297) welcomes Luke Air Force Base's first F-35 Lightning II (11-5030) to the base on 10 March 2014.
Luke Air Force Base (IATA: LUF, ICAO: KLUF, FAA LID: LUF) is a United States Air Force base in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.[2] It is located 7 miles (6.1 nmi; 11 km) west of the central business district of Glendale, and 15 miles (13 nmi; 24 km) west of Phoenix.
Luke AFB is a major training base of the Air Education and Training Command (AETC), training pilots in the F-16 Fighting Falcon. On 31 March 2011, the F-35 Lightning II was announced to be replacing the F-16 as the primary training aircraft at Luke, although the date of deployment of the new aircraft to Luke and reorganization plans were not announced. On 16 July 2013, the Air Force announced that Luke AFB will house a total of 144 F-35A Lightning IIs. The first F-35A Lightning II arrived to the base on March 10, 2014.[3][4]
It is a designated superfund site due to a number of soil and groundwater contaminants.
^"Airport Data – (LUF) Luke AFB". Federal Aviation Administration. 8 October 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
^FAA Airport Form 5010 for LUF PDF, effective 20 December 2007
^Additional F-35s coming to Luke AFB – Af.mil, 16 July 2013
^Griset, R. (2020). Luke Air Force Base. Arcadia Publishing.
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