Combat aircraft

F35S IN JAPAN

HILL F35AS DEPLOY TO KADENA •

‘GREEN KNIGHTS’ RECEIVE FINAL AIRCRAFT

COAST GUARD RECEIVES FINAL SPARTAN

THE COAST GUARD’S HC-27J asset

project o ce (APO) took custody

of the service’s 14th and  nal C-27J

at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona,

on October 19. Tail number 2705

had been in storage with the

309th Aerospace Maintenance and

Regeneration Group since August

2013. Originally assigned the
      USAF serial number 08-27014, the
      Spartan was the last of 13 C-27Js
      to be re-generated from storage.
      Previously assigned to the Ohio Air
      National Guard’s 179th Airlift Wing,

the C-27J was  own to the Coast

Guard Aviation Training Center in

Mobile, Alabama. Seven Spartans

are currently under the control of

the APO and six are assigned to

Coast Guard Air Station Sacramento,

California. A missionization package

that will integrate sensors, radar, and

command, control, communications,

computers, intelligence, surveillance

and reconnaissance equipment

with the aircraft is being developed

by Naval Air Systems Command.

A prototype HC-27J is undergoing

missionization at NAS Patuxent

River, Maryland.

F-35A serial 14-5101 lands at

Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan,

on November 2. The 34th Fighter

Squadron deployed from Hill AFB,

Utah under US Paci c Command’s

theater security package program.

USAF/SrA Omari Bernard

C-27J tail number 2705 prepares to depart

from Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, on

October 19. This Spartan was the last of 13

US Coast Guard C-27Js to be regenerated

from storage with the 309th Aerospace

Maintenance and Regeneration Group.

USAF/A1C Frankie D. Moore

http://www.combataircraft.net January 2018

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