F-117A Nighthawks Return

Duggy009 · **Joined:** Fri Mar 23, 2012 6:20 pm **Posts:** 324

An F-117 Nighthawk lands for the first time at the Fresno Yosemite International Airport, Sept 13, 2021, to conduct training missions with the local Air National Guard unit. Two F-117 Nighthawks are participating in dissimilar air combat training missions this week along with F-15 pilots from the 144th Fighter Wing in Fresno, Calif. (Air National Guard photos by Capt. Jason Sanchez)

p51 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:10 pm

I sometimes wonder if an apex in fighter design was made in the 1970s.
So neat to see them back in the air. I thought I was lucky to have seen them in the air back when they were used originally a few times...

Spitty · **Posted:** Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:15 pm

They are ideal to represent current Red Stealth assets in training..

lucky52 · **Posted:** Thu Sep 16, 2021 7:59 pm

Probable a secret, but I wonder how many they keep flyable?

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:20 pm

Here's some video (not mine):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=732MRe1AlFE

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1595

They've been active for a long time: no secret.

Steve Rice · **Joined:** Mon Sep 11, 2017 9:23 pm **Posts:** 22

Anyone have serial numbers for the two black jets?

CAPFlyer · **Posted:** Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:26 pm

lucky52 wrote:

Probable a secret, but I wonder how many they keep flyable?

Last time I read, there were at least 4 or 5 kept flying at any given time for various programs and purposes, but at least a dozen were at Tonopah Test Range airport (KTTR) and rotated to maintain relatively even timing.

lucky52 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 19, 2021 5:33 pm

Thanks Capflyer.

FAR148 · **Joined:** Tue Mar 19, 2013 12:18 pm **Posts:** 84

F-117 Nighthawks Have Been Masquerading As Cruise Missiles. more info here... https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4 ... e-confirms

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