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944th pilot aims high and logs 4,000 flying hours Jan 18, 2015 - Col. Gregory Jones, 944th Operations Group commander, completed 4000 flying hours in the F-16 Fighting Falcon, January 9, 2015. [Read more...]	Aggressors take off for joint, coalition training in Pacific Jan 17, 2015 - Fourteen F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 18th Aggressor Squadron took off January 17 in transit to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, and Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. [Read more...]

Airmen lock'n'load at competition Jan 14, 2015 - The 52nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron hosted the annual weapons load competition January 9, 2015 at Hangar 1 here. The competition consisted of four quarterly winners for 2014 battling head-to-head for the title of Weapons Load Crew of the Year. [Read more...]	Elbit Systems wins an 11-year Israeli F-16 maintenance contract Jan 06, 2015 - The Israeli Ministry of Defense awarded Elbit Systems a $90 million contract to maintain the Israeli Air Force's F-16 avionics systems for the next 11 years. [Read more...]
Jordanian F-16 crashes, pilot captured by Islamic State Dec 24, 2014 - Jordanian state news agency reported the countries armed forces had lost a warplane on Wednesday morning while flying a mission over Syria and one of its pilots had been captured by Islamic State (IS). [Read more...]	D-models return to flight after longeron repair Dec 23, 2014 - Air Force officials removed 82 two-seat F-16D Fighting Falcons from flight earlier this summer after discovering cracks along the canopy sill longeron between the front and rear pilot seats. [Read more...]
AF delivers Iraqi F-16s for training in US Dec 18, 2014 - For more than 65 years the Air Force has embraced the concept of flexibility being the key to airpower. Now Airmen from the Arizona Air National Guard are sharing that capacity to find creative ways to overcome problems with one of the Air Force's newest allies – the Iraqi Air Force. [Read more...]	Greek F-16D from 343 Sqn crashes South of Crete. Dec 04, 2014 - An F-16D block 52+ from 343M crashed during a training flight on December 4th, 2014 at 13.42h local time, 14 nautical miles north of the island of Gavdos. Both crew members, successful ejected. [Read more...]
SCANG helps Navy unit prepare for deployment Dec 03, 2014 - Nearly 200 Airmen and more than a dozen Block 52 F-16 Fighting Falcon jets traveled across the country to train with the U.S. Navy Carrier Air Wing One (CVW 1) who is preparing for an upcoming deployment aboard Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt next spring. [Read more...]	Pilot killed as U.S. F-16 crashes in Jordan Dec 01, 2014 - A U.S. Air Force pilot was killed when the F-16 he was flying suffered a mechanical malfunction and then crashed in Jordan as he attempted to return. The incident occurred at about 23.00h ET Sunday, U.S. Central Command said in a statement today. [Read more...]

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