The website "Airandspaceforces.com reports the "Red Tail F35s" ...several of which have arrived in Montgomery...will NOT actually have red tails, despite the apparently tongue in cheek photo below, posted on the unit's website:
"But no one is actually going to paint the F-35 Lightning II tails. The aircraft’s stealthy skin is designed and crafted to minimize the jet’s radar signature, and the highly detailed work to maintain its skin is labor intensive."
Previous fighters DID have actual red tails:
(https://www.airandspaceforces.com/alabama-air-national-guard-first-f-35s/)
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