Fokker Technologies, under an industrial agreement signed on 14 January 2015, will be responsible for the manufacturing of the flaperons and outboard leading edge wing flaps for F-35s in Low Rate Initial Production, or LRIP, Lots 9 and 10. The wing parts will be manufactured at the Fokker facility in Hoogeveen, Netherlands. The contract runs through 2017. The composite and titanium flaperons on the F-35 wing trailing edge are nearly ten feet long. Fokker has been manufacturing the flaperons and leading edge flaps since LRIP 3 for the F-35. A total of twenty-eight Dutch companies are directly involved in the F-35 program with more than 100 involved as subcontractors.
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