{"id":1439,"date":"2026-01-07T22:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/italy-approves-first-multinational-f-35-pilot-training-center-outside-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:08:38","slug":"italy-approves-first-multinational-f-35-pilot-training-center-outside-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2026\/01\/07\/italy-approves-first-multinational-f-35-pilot-training-center-outside-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy Approves First Multinational F-35 Pilot Training Center Outside The U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Trapani-F-35-news-460x259.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Italy F-35 training hub\" \/>The new facility at Trapani-Birgi will make the Sicilian base Italy\u2019s third operational F-35 hub and a future multinational training center for NATO and partner nations. Italy\u2019s Ministry of Defense has formally approved the creation of a new F-35 Lightning II training center at Trapani-Birgi Air Base, authorizing an investment of \u20ac112.6 million to turn [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new facility at Trapani-Birgi will make the Sicilian base Italy\u2019s third operational F-35 hub and a future multinational training center for NATO and partner nations. Italy\u2019s Ministry of Defense has formally approved the creation of a new F-35 Lightning II training center at Trapani-Birgi Air Base, authorizing an investment of \u20ac112.6 million to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}