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Lawmakers grilled Navy and Defense Department officials, asking about the November crash, as well as why the Osprey has contributed to a staggering 20 service member deaths in the last two years.

The jet was en route to Edwards Air Force Base in California from Fort Worth, Texas, when the incident occurred, according to a spokesperson for Lockheed Martin, which builds the fifth-generation fighter jets.

In the backdrop of humming sewing machines and buzzing scanners, the celebration reached a crescendo as Captain Ryosuke Sugimoto of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force proudly donned his custom-tailored helmet, marking the 1,000th F-35 pilot outfitted with precision and care.

After a monthslong grounding, US Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy V-22 Ospreys must fly within 30 minutes of an airfield in case of emergency.

Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy V-22 Ospreys were all given the green light to fly again in early March and have been slowly taking to the skies following a tragic crash that killed eight airmen late last year in Japan.

The V-22 Program Office is starting a new study looking at long-term modernization of the tiltrotor.

The Air Force is the last among the services to return its Ospreys to the air following the Nov. 29 crash off the coast of Japan that killed eight airmen and triggered a military-wide grounding.

The MXU-1072/A 5th generation travel pod is carried inside the F-35A Lightning II's weapons bays.

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As the F-35C fleet expands at Naval Air Station Lemoore, the service and a government oversight group worry the jets aren’t available for missions enough.