{"id":166321,"date":"2025-01-12T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-bases-f-35s\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T13:00:14","slug":"what-us-air-force-bases-have-f-35s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=166321","title":{"rendered":"What US Air Force Bases Have F-35s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> is by far the largest operator of the             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/f-35\/\"  >F-35<\/a><\/span> Lightning II fighter jet; it plans to purchase a total of 1,763 F-35As (considerably more than all foreign air forces in the world combined). The US Air Force only operates the F-35A variant (with the Marines operating the F-35B and F-35C while the Navy operates the F-35C). The F-35A is the conventional takeoff and landing variant designed for air forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten air force bases are listed as bases for the USAF F-35A, although they can operate from many more bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,748,628,412,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-f-35","category-fighter-jets","category-military","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166322,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166321\/revisions\/166322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}