Delivery ceremony for first Greenville-made F-16 to be livestreamed.

Lockheed Martin will livestream delivery of the first Royal Bahraini Air Force F-16 Block 70 at 11 a.m. on March 10. Senior Bahraini, U.S. government, military and aerospace industry officials will celebrate the event, according to a news release.

The kingdom of Bahrain was the first customer announced by Lockheed Martin when the company moved production of the F-16 to its Greenville site, which had been a sustainment center until then.

Lockheed Martin said in 2017 that Greenville would be the new home for F-16 production and then in 2018 the company announced it had a deal with Bahrain and was in negotiations with several other countries cleared by the Department of Defense to purchase the fighter jets.

Defense Department and government officials have touted the sales as a way to make sure U.S. friends would be equipped to engage entities unfriendly to the United States and allied countries. See related story.

The ceremony, to include high-level speeches and the aircraft's official reveal, will be livestreamed here.

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