Lockheed Won't Take F-16 to Paris Air Show.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  April, 2003  

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By Dan Piller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 28--FORT WORTH, Texas--Lockheed Martin Aeronautics won't boycott the Paris Air Show this July, but at the suggestion of the U.S. government it will leave its venerable F-16 Fighting Falcon at home for the first time since 1975.

The strain in U.S.-French relations over the Iraq war has generated suggestions that U.S. aerospace companies boycott the Paris show, the world's largest. It is held every two years.

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics President Dain Hancock said Sunday that his ...

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