Boeing is now building the first F-47 next-generation fighter aircraft, and it is expected to be ready to fly in 2028, Air Force chief of staff David Allvin announced on Monday.

Allvin, who spoke at the Air & Space Forces Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference on Monday, said Boeing quickly went to work on the sixth-generation fighter aircraft shortly after President Donald Trump announced it had won the contract in March.

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“In the few short months since we made the announcement, they are already beginning to manufacture the first article,” Allvin said , refe

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