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F-117A Robotic Coating System
• Improve the reliability, availability and maintainability of the F-117A
Fleet by robotic application of RAM coating
• Supplied to LM Skunk Works as a turnkey system
• Shipped in Aug. 1998; coated first aircraft in Feb. 1999
• First production aircraft coated in March 2000, second in May 2000
• 12 aircraft coated as of April 2001
• 11 aircraft per year production rate
Robotic painting