Crew chief Staff Sgt. Adam Murtishaw does a post flight inspection on an F-22A Raptor at Langley AFB after a Dec. 14 mission. The 27th Fighter Squadron earned initial operating capability today, which means the stealth jet is combat ready. Sergeant Murtishaw is with the 27th Aircraft Maintenance Unit. [USAF photo by Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker]
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News: F-22A Raptor took long road to initial operational capability [2005-12-27]
With the F-22A's initial operational capability declaration Dec. 15 came the capstone of a process that began 76 months earlier, in August 1997, when a C-5 Galaxy landed at Edwards AFB and taxied down the expansive "Contractor's Row" with several crates and boxes in its cargo bay for what is now known as the F-22A Combined Test Force.
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