Candidate Bases Named for First AFRC F-35 Unit

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Air Force officials announced April 12 that Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona; Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida; Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas; and Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, are candidate bases for the first Reserve-led F-35A Lightning II location.

The preferred and reasonable alternatives are expected to be selected in the fall and the F-35As are slated to begin arriving at the first Reserve-led F-35A location by the summer of 2023.

The Air Force also released basing criteria that will be used to select candidate bases for two Air National Guard squadrons, which are planned to receive their first aircraft in the summer of 2022.

The Air Force will evaluate Guard installations with runways of at least 8,000 feet and operational A-10 Thunderbolt IIs, F-16 Fighting Falcons or F-15 Eagles against the approved criteria to identify candidate bases for the F-35A.

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So looking at the Reserve units, it's out of these four:

47th Fighter Squadron, Davis-Monthan AFB AZ (A-10; to F-16 in 2019-20)
93d Fighter Squadron, Homestead ARB FL (F-16)
303d Fighter Squadron, Whiteman AFB MO (A-10)
457th Fighter Squadron, NAS JRB Fort Worth TX (F-16)