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Special to the Northwest Florida Daily News/USA TODAY NETWORK EGLIN AFB —  Residents may hear aircraft noise when the 43rd Fighter Squadron conducts night flying in the area next week.  F-22 fighter aircraft will fly training missions between 8 and 11 p.m. July 27-30. These missions are a required part of the 43rd Fighter Squadron training operations. For more information, contact the Team Eglin public affairs office at 850-882-3931. Do Not Sell My Info / Cookie Policy

July 21, 2021 ELLSWORTH AFB, S.D. — The prepping began over a year ago for Ellsworth Air Force Base to play home base to visiting aircrews during Combat Raider. Fighters from Goldsboro, North Carolina and Sioux Falls, South Dakota launching from Ellsworth with tankers and the familiar B-1B bombers. The large-scale exercise also brings in other fighter, surveillance, and reconnaissance platforms to the Powder River Training Complex, the military operations area, or MOA, over the Dakotas, Monta...

10 Approximately 300 Airmen and a contingent of F-16CJ Fighting Falcon aircraft from the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing have returned home after a successful three month deployment to Prince Sultan Air Base (PSAB), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While deployed to PSAB, the 169th Fighter Wing’s “Swamp Foxes” were attached to the 378th Air Expeditionary Wing and supported U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) by boosting defensive capabilities against potential ...

The flypasts are part of the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Operation Inspiration, which started in 2020 but was cut short following a fatal Snowbirds crash in Kamloops. Expect to see and hear the team’s CF-188 Hornet, commonly called the CF-18, as it flies at an altitude no lower than 300 metres above the highest obstacle on its route. At the controls will be Capt. Dan Deluce, an instructor at 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron, stationed at Cold Lake, Alta. After taking off from Boundary Bay A...

Expect to see and hear the team’s CF-188 Hornet, commonly called the CF-18, as it flies at an altitude no lower than 300 metres above the highest obstacle on its route. At the controls will be Capt. Dan Deluce, an instructor at 410 Tactical Fighter Squadron, stationed at Cold Lake, Alta. After taking off from Boundary Bay Airport in Delta at 1 p.m., he will perform flypasts over Nanaimo, Parksville and Tofino before travelling down along the west coast of Vancouver Island to Victoria. He s...

Mourned by nieces who never knew him, long-missing WWII soldier buried at Fort Snelling They only knew Uncle Billy from letters and stories. After 77 years, his family welcomed him home.  July 16, 2021 — 8:58pm Text size Copy shortlink: As a kid, Kathy Salisbury Massie would visit her grandmothers house just south of Lake Harriett, go to the attic and spend time with the uncle shed never met. In the attic were Uncle Billys Army tru...

Jul 16, 2021 Photo: Ford, Brad The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing is hosting the 21st Fighter Squadron out of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, to conduct dissimilar air combat training (DACT) from July 15-30. The 21st Fighter Squadron’s F-16 Vipers will fly in collaborative exercises with the 142nd Wing’s F-15 Eagles during the two-weeks of DACT. This specified training provides realistic combat scenarios for pilots to hone advanced aerial tactics that may be used against potential a...

14 The skies roared with the sounds of U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcons. Sounds that are not usually heard in a small mountain community in South America. Far from home and familiar territory, Airmen from all over the United States journeyed to Colombia and transformed a contingency location to conduct theatre training as well as joint, coalition and partnered missions during the course of a major international exercise. Airmen and pilots assigned to the 474th Expeditionar...

Jul 16, 2021 Photo: Ford, Brad The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing is hosting the 21st Fighter Squadron out of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, to conduct dissimilar air combat training (DACT) from July 15-30. The 21st Fighter Squadron’s F-16 Vipers will fly in collaborative exercises with the 142nd Wing’s F-15 Eagles during the two-weeks of DACT. This specified training provides realistic combat scenarios for pilots to hone advanced aerial tactics that may be used against potential a...

Jul 16, 2021 Photo: Ford, Brad The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing is hosting the 21st Fighter Squadron out of Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, to conduct dissimilar air combat training (DACT) from July 15-30. The 21st Fighter Squadron’s F-16 Vipers will fly in collaborative exercises with the 142nd Wing’s F-15 Eagles during the two-weeks of DACT. This specified training provides realistic combat scenarios for pilots to hone advanced aerial tactics that may be used against potential a...