It took 4 years and over 10,000 hours of volunteer work to get the YF-16 #72-01568 to its original appearance. On Saturday, June 1, 2024, the Fort Worth Aviation Museum unveiled the second YF-16 ...

Witness the USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team's tribute to aviation history with their 50th-anniversary YF-16 prototype livery. This performance at the 2024 Quinte International Air Show in Trenton, Ontario, ...

On Jan. 20, 1974, the YF-16 No.1 flew for the first time, although it wasn’t planned. Here is what happened over the next 50 years. Today, Jan. 20, 2024, marks half a century since the first ...

The F-16 pioneered new technology, and it remains a powerful, cost-effective jet, evolving with upgrades. On January 20, 1974, a runway high-speed taxi test involving General Dynamics' YF-16 ...

Their efforts led to the development of the YF-16 and YF-17 as part of the USAF’s Lightweight Fighter program. -While the YF-16 won, becoming the F-16 Fighting Falcon, the YF-17 found a new home ...

Test pilot Phil Oestricher flew the prototype YF-16 for the first time Jan. 20, 1974, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Originally meant to be a high-speed taxi run, the test turned into a six ...

that honors the original aircraft. The red, white and blue paint scheme was the original style for the YF-16 prototype first flown in 1974, the Air Force said Wednesday in a news release.

The Air Force passed on the YF-17 prototype, preferring the more agile F-16. But Navy planners liked it—ultimately transforming it into the venerable F/A-18. The upcoming F/A-XX contract award ...

But the flight, which was a nail-biter, was not planned. The prototype aircraft, technically known as the YF-16, was supposed to be conducting just a high-speed taxi test—but the pilot had other ...

The Air Force debuted an old-is-new paint job for an F-16 this week to commemorate the aircraft’s 50th anniversary. The red-white-and-blue livery mirrors the scheme used on original YF-16 ...

The brainchild of the aeronautical savant and Flint, Michigan native Harry Hillaker, the original YF-16 became the foundation on which several nations formed the backbone of their respective air ...