#Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

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Ground crewmen refuel and service the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft during a stopover at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The 747 is transporting the Space Shuttle Challenger to Cape Canaveral, Florida. An A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft is in the foreground.

Date: December 3, 1985

NASA ID: DF-SN-86-12863

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Lockheed Martin HC-130J Combat King II USAF 09-5709 by Chris Murkin Via Flickr: Lockheed Martin HC-130J Combat King II USAF 09-5709 Landing at Davis Monthan Air Force Base Photo taken from Pima Air & Space Museum Tucson Arizona HAA_4838

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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona

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An Honorable Event 🫡

An F-35A Lightning II aircraft performs an aerial demonstration alongside an F-22 Raptor, F-16 Fighting Falcon, and a P-51 Mustang during the 2025 Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona.

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An A-10C Thunderbolt II performs aerial maneuvers during the annual Heritage Flight Training and Certification Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AZ., March 3, 2018 t.me/airforceeagles facebook.com/skyeagless/ facebook.com/groups/1756968847949115/ instagram.com/skyeagless/ twitter.com/skyeagless youtube.com/channel/UCq3i5OMVZPd0AO4QLtOA5Tw

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Final Flight of the Bulldogs.

DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. 21 JUN 2024.

Photos by Senior Airman Vaughn Weber.

Story by Airman 1st Class Jhade Herrera and Senior Airman Vaughn Weber. Edited by R. Etzweiler.

The 354th Fighter Squadron and 354th Fighter Generation Squadron have flown their last A-10C Thunderbolt II sortie.

The fini flight was flown by Lt. Col. Patrick "Meat" Chapman, commander of the 354th Fighter Squadron.

The inactivations of the 354th FS and 354th FGS come as their assigned A-10s are sent to The Boneyard. The base makes way for the planned arrival of the 492nd Special Operations Wing.

The Bulldogs last deployed to Al Dhafra Air Base from October 2023 to April 2024 in support of the first AFFORGEN cycle and were instrumental in developing attack leaders and deploying combat AirPower.

“Our most recent deployment was an operationally challenging one,” said Chapman. “I'm proud of the ops and the maintenance team for stepping up to meet those challenges, which ultimately protected coalition lives during a very turbulent time in the Middle East.”

As part of the inactivation, assignment teams will work with pilots and maintainers to determine new assignments based on what is best for each member’s career development, to include transitioning to different weapons systems.

[Note from the Curator: The mustache decal on the nose of this Warthawg is a Pedros (pararescue jumpers) designation. That means during its deployments it worked with ground forces during CSAR missions.]

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Bum Steer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for Heritage Flight Training

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Episode 123: Lights! Phoenix! Action!

Garth has returned from his special assignments, and Cody has returned from Phoenix with a tale to tell. Get out your telescopes and potato cameras, look upwards and through the past to the mid 90's as we explore one of the largest mass UFO sightings in history! And along the way we'll take a ride on a warthog too. 

As always, please come join the episode discussion on the Least Haunted Discord!

Enjoy the images and videos below!

Newspaper article with artists interpretation of eye witness accounts of UFO that flew over Arizona March 13th, 1997.

Flight path of UFO. Starting in Henderson, Nevada and finishing near Tucson, Arizona. A route of approximately 370 miles or 546 Kilometers. This was traveled in 1.25 hours.

At 10:00 pm Mike Crispin looks southward across Phoenix towards "South Mountain" and captures this footage.

Approximate line of sight of Mike Crispin, with his position being the North (top) end of the line.

Arizona Governor Fife Symington III holds a press conference about The Phoenix Lights with an aide dressed as an alien.

The A-10 Thunderbolt II aka "The Warthog" Close Air Support (CAS) jet aircraft. Development began in 1972, and it entered into service in 1977. Headquartered at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

The General Electric GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Gatling Gun.

The Gau-8 Avenger can fire 3,900 30 millimeter depleted uranium rounds a minute. The round on the left is the 30 millimeter round, with the left being the round of a 30.06 rifle for comparison.

The Barry Goldwater Gunnery Range and Training Area.

The LUU2 Illumination Parachute Flare.

Sales Brochure for the flare with selected specs. Note that it is a A-10 Warthog that is shown deploying the flare in official promotional material for the hardware.

A video Analyisis of the Crispin footage that shows what is really going on with the second set of lights seen on March 13th, 1997.

Enhanced image from the video that shows the night time lights superimposed on top of daylight footage from the same exact spot and angle. This proves that the lights were beyond South Mountain, and confirms the official explanation of a LUU2 flare training exercise over the Barry M. Goldwater Gunnery Range.

GARTH'S CORNER!

Comet Hale-Bopp

Alan Hale, Astronomer and one of two discoverers of the comet.

Thomas Bopp (1949-2018), the other discoverer of the comet.

Model of the path of Comet Hale-Bopp, credit for the animations goes to Phoenix7777 posted on Wikipedia - working from Data source: HORIZONS System, JPL, NASA.

3D model of the same

Heaven’s Gate website, which is still active.

How to report a comet: https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/how-to-report-a-comet-discovery/

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(7/6/1990) An F-106A Delta Dart aircraft sits on the flight line at Rockwell International's Plant No. 42, where it has been used as a safety chase aircraft for the B-1B aircraft production acceptance flight test program. The aircraft will be flown to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, for use in the QF-106 drone program. A B-1B aircraft is in the background. Camera Operator: SSGT John K. Mcdowell

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Place: Tucson, Arizona

Fun Fact: It’s the largest boneyard of its kind in the world. There are about 4,000 aircrafts there.

A boneyard is the place where planes that are no longer in use are stored. Most aircraft are either kept for maintenance or to retrieve parts that will be reused or sold before the aircraft is destroyed.

Located right next to the Museum at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, the Pima Air & Space Museum offers exclusive bus tours of the Tucson Boneyard, also known as the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARG).

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Aircraft boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base

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AFSOUTH Launches AMISTAD 2025 Across Latin America

Oipol & Oijust OSINT Global Operation cooperation and edition. 7 June 2025 | Air Forces Southern (AFSOUTH) / Andrea Jenkins. June 4, 2025.- DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. – U.S. Air Forces Southern  launched AMISTAD 2025 in Peru on June 2, marking the start of a global health engagement designed to strengthen partnerships and enhance deployment readiness across five Latin American…

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Airmen hold first training sortie for new electronic attack plane

Airmen assigned to the 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron disembark from an EA-37B Compass Call at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. (Airman Samantha Melecio/Air Force) Airmen this month conducted the first mission training sortie for the new EA-37B Compass Call, a milestone for the adoption of the Air Force’s new electronic attack aircraft. The training flight was carried out May 2 by the 43rd…