RETURN OF THE RAPTORS

USAF F-22A Raptors undertook a training deployment to RAF Lakenheath in October, as Darren Willmin of Aviation in Action reports

Six more Raptors arrived at RAF Lakenheath on October 17. They flew in on their way home to Langley AFB, Virginia at the end of a deployment in the Middle East
Dino Carrara

The 48th Fighter Wing (FW) at RAF Lakenheath recently hosted six Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptors on a flying training deployment (FTD). They arrived on October 8. This was the type’s first appearance at the Suffolk base since 12 F-22As from the 325th FW at Tyndall AFB, Florida visited in April 2016.

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