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Top Aces certifies F16A ‘Flying Falcon’ for training 20th May 2021 11:52 Europe/London American training provider Top Aces has become the first private company in the world to own and operate a fourth-generation fighter aircraft, the awesome Lockheed Martin 16A ‘Flying Falcon’. Top Aces describes its work as ‘advanced adversary training’ – what the US Air Force calls ‘Red Air’ – and it has a contract with the USAF for Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ). We think that means ‘fill yer boots’. Top Aces took delivery of its first four F-16s in January. The comp...

The training/adversary services provider is the first in the world to operate the fourth-generation F-16 on commercial services.

Top Aces Aggressor F-16 Flies For The First Time In The U.S. Top Aces Aggressor F-16 Flies For The First Time In The U.S. The F-16A of Top Aces lands at Phoenix Mesa Gateway airport after its first flight in the USA. (Photo: Thomas Backus) The former Israeli F-16 flew from the Top Aces’s facilities at Phoenix Mesa Gateway airport and is the first 4th generation fighter flown by private “Red Air”. The Canadian company Top Aces performed on May 18, 2021 the first flight of one of its former Israeli F-16As since their arrival in the United States earlier this year. The aircraft, which was ...

Watch the First Privately Owned F-16 Take Flight Kyle Mizokami The first of many F-16s that a private training company purchased is now flying over Arizona. Top Aces bought 29 fighters from Israeli Air Force stocks. The private company will use the planes as stand-ins for adversary fighters training Air Force pilots. A private military contractor recently bought more than two dozen F-16A Fighting Falcon fighter jets. Now, one of those fighters is flying, marking the the first time a privately owned F-16 has ever hit the skies. The company that acquired the planes, Top Aces, h...

Top Aces gains German adversary training contract Primary tabs 29th April 2021 Germany has contracted Canada-based Top Aces to provide fast-jet adversary air training services for the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces). The company announced on April 26 that the recently awarded contract will become effective from January 1, 2022. Operating out of Wittmundhafen Air Base in the German state of Lower Saxony, Top Aces has already been providing advanced airborne training for the Bundeswehr for the past six years. The firm plans to invest more than CDN$100m in furtherance of the new contract. Rolf ...