{"id":5993,"date":"2026-10-16T07:38:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/jfk-aircraft-carrier-marks-historic-f-35-landing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T12:38:46","slug":"jfk-aircraft-carrier-marks-historic-f-35-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/16\/jfk-aircraft-carrier-marks-historic-f-35-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"JFK Aircraft Carrier Marks Historic F-35 Landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> WESTERN ATLANTIC \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) JFK Aircraft Carrier \u2013 The U.S. Navy has achieved a historic milestone aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), successfully recovering an F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter on a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier for the first time. The landmark landing occurred on October 13, 2026, during aircraft compatibility testing in the western Atlantic Ocean. The achievement represents a major step toward integrating the Navy\u2019s most advanced carrier-based fighter aircraft with its newest generation of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers. <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FN1iVjhnylew%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JFK aircraft carrier marks sea trials milestone\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1iVjhnylew?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> The aircraft, assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23),<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/jfk-aircraft-carrier-marks-historic-f-35-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WESTERN ATLANTIC \u2013 October 16, 2026 (STL.News) JFK Aircraft Carrier \u2013 The U.S. Navy has achieved a historic milestone aboard the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), successfully recovering an F-35C Lightning II stealth fighter on a Gerald R&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5993\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}