Although Boeing will perform much of the engineering, manufacturing, and development activities for its T-X trainer candidate at its St. Louis facilities—and both EMD examples will have undergone final assembly there—no decision has been made about where final assembly will take place if Boeing wins the T-X production contract, according to Boeing officials. We have updated the Sept. 14 story online.
U.S. Air Force F-35s and F-22s regularly deploy deep into the Pacific region from Alaska, Utah, and Hawaii. In the future, though, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command would like to see the Air Force permanently station fifth-generation aircraft west of the international date line—closer to China.