On December 5, 2024, Luftwaffe Inspector Lt Gen. Ingo Gerhartz signed the bulkhead for the first German F-35A at Lockheed Martin's Marietta, GA plant, thereby starting Germany's manufacture of the F-35A Lightning II fighter plane. According to General Gerhartz, the occasion marks a new phase in the implementation of the F-35A program by the Federal Republic of Germany. https://www.coherentmarketinsights.com/news/germany-begins-production-of-first-f-35a-fighter-jet-1054