493rd FS F-15s return from Middle East

North America

F-15C 86-0163 ‘LN’ arrives back home at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, on July 12 after a six-month deployment to the Middle East.
USAF/Senior Airman Malcolm Mayfield

AIRCRAFT AND airmen from the USAF’s 48th Fighter Wing/493rd Fighter Squadron ‘Grim Reapers’ and 748th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron recently returned from a sixmonth deployment to an undisclosed air base in the Middle East. The 493rd’s F-15Cs arrived back at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, in two waves on July 12 and 21.

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