First Bulgarian Air Force F-16 arrives

The Bulgarian Ministry of Defence (MoD) formally celebrated the arrival in country of its first Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 Fighting Falcon. The aircraft, a twin-seat F-16D with the tail number 301, was presented at the Bulgarian Air Force’s 3rd Air Base at Graf Ignatievo, near Plovdiv. Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov, Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov, Chief of Defence Admiral Emil Eftimov, and Susan Falatko, charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Bulgaria, all attended the ceremony. Zapryanov said: