(From right-to-left) Haim Kats, Secretary of IAI’s Employees' Union, Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Israel's Minister of Defense, Rafi Maor, IAI's chairman of the Board, Daniel Shapiro, US ambassador to Israel, US Air Force Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan, F-35 program executive officer, Pat Dewar, executive vice president, Lockheed Martin International, and Jacob Rozman, acting manager of IAI's Lahav Divison.

IAI begin production of F-35 fighter wings

5 November 2014

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has inaugurated its wing production line for the F-35 fighter aircraft at IAI Lahav division.

The automated line is expected to produce about four sets of wings per month that will later be attached to the F-35 fuselage in the US.

IAI is scheduled to produce more than 800 pairs of F-35 wings over the next decade.

The first set of wings will be ready for delivery to Lockheed Martin by mid-2015.

The potential sales are estimated at $2.5 billion.