AIRCRAFT: F-16A

• TYPE: single-seat lightweight air combat fighter
  
• MAKER: General Dynamics Corporation
  
• SPAN: 9.45 m. (31 ft.) over wingtip missle rails
  
• LENGTH: 14.52 m. (47 ft. 7 2/3 in.) excluding nose probe
  
• HEIGHT: 5.01 m. (16 ft. 5 1/3 in.)
  
• WING AREA: 27.87 sq. meters (300 sq. ft.)
  
• WEIGHT: maximum 16,057 kg. (35,400 lb.); empty 6,607 kg. (14,567 lb.)
  
• POWERPLANT: one 10,800 kg. (23,800 lb.) st Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-100(3) afterburning turbofan
  
• PERFORMANCE: maximum speed over 2,124 km./h. (1,320 m.p.h.) at 12,200 m. (40,000 ft.); service ceiling over 15,240 m. (50,000 ft.); radius of action over 925 km. (575 miles)
  
• ARMAMENT: one General Electric M61A-1 20 mm. (0.79 in.) Vulcan cannon; one under-fuselage hardpoint stressed for 1,000 kg. (2,200 lb.);two inboard hardpoints for 1,587 kg. (3,500 lb.; two center underwing hardpoints for 1,134 kg. (2,500 lb.); two outboard underwing hardpoints and two wingtip stations for 113 kg. (250 lb.)
  
• CREW: 1

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