F-16 availability
How many F-16 are available on the world market at the moment?
I know that Norway just retired theirs at the beginning of last year and I am sure that there a quite a few at Davis-Monthan AFB under the care of the 309th. My tally from Google Maps was in the vicinity of 284 airframes. I am not sure if these are included in the Flight Global, which was 922 airframes.
The balance of the world's users have (excluding Venezuela) is 1746 airframes, and I would look at the F-16AM/BM that have spread from the RNAF worldwide as a potential source such as Chile, Jordan and Thailand for small counts of airframes in the same configuration
The real need is for pilots and platforms to fly in a short amount of time.
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