@Flying Tenrub "Not all craft listed in equipment is canon after all."
This is exactly why I locked the other thread, because this is something that, for some reason, you're failing to grasp.
The "Equipment" section of a character's infobox must ONLY contain canon or DLC/Special equipment. This wiki runs on canon information. DLC and Special Aircraft CAN be included because they are simply a representation of that character's already-canon aircraft, tuned to their personality or history.
That said, I would not count the F-16C as a canon aircraft for Talisman. This is because of two reasons: the player is not forced to use it like AC5 where you must use the F-5E in the first four missions of all campaign runs (in AC6, if you have DLC, you can start a brand-new save file flying the CFA-44 -PROTOTYPE- if you want), and there is no evidence of Talisman indisputably flying it like AC04's carrier cutscene in the F-4E, Zero's pictures of Cipher in the F-15C, or AC7's picture of Trigger in the F-22A. The takeoff cutscene doesn't count because that depends on whatever you chose.
"But what about Trigger in the F-16C?" I hear you ask, because if you have DLC then you're not forced to use the F-16C, and there's no pictures of Trigger flying the F-16C. However, we have enough evidence to conclude that Trigger indisputably flies the F-16C at the start of the game. As @CalamitousEnigma explained, outside of Spare's scrap metal, AC7's squadrons are uniform (even Sol Squadron all uses Su-30s, just different specifications) and Clown flies an F-16C, so since the player's starting aircraft is the F-16C, and Mission 1 is Trigger's first sortie ever, it's the logical conclusion. On the other hand, by the time the AC6 war broke out, Talisman had been serving for the Emmerian Air Force for almost two years and is almost consistently depicted flying only the F-15E. There's no F-16C -Talisman- like the F-4E -Mobius1- or J35J -Cipher-.
This is also why the F-4E does not count as one of Antares One's canon aircraft. He was a decorated soldier joining a mercenary force. The player is not forced to use the F-4E like they're forced to use the F-5E in AC5's beginning missions, and there is no evidence that leads to the logical conclusion of Antares One definitely flying the F-4E.