Marietta F-35 Subassembly Begins

Photo by Damien Guarnieri

A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on 27 July 2010 to inaugurate F-35 Lightning II center wing production at the Lockheed Martin facility in Marietta, Georgia. The F-35 work will occupy more than 320,000 square feet in the site’s 3.8 million square foot main assembly building. The first Marietta-built center wing is expected to be delivered in the third quarter of 2011 to the Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas, where F-35 final assembly takes place. At full-rate production in 2016, the Marietta line will employ approximately 600 people and will produce one F-35 center wing shipset per workday. Establishing F-35 subassembly in Marietta alleviates capacity constraints in Fort Worth and takes advantage of available manufacturing capability.