New Raptor Coming Up

Posted 26 October 2010

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Photo by Todd R. McQueen

The latest F-22 Raptor to come off the Lockheed Martin assembly line in Marietta, Georgia, takes off on its delivery flight to Langley AFB, Virginia, on 26 October 2010. This aircraft (Air Force serial number 09-4168) is the fifteenth F-22 delivered to the US Air Force in 2010 and is the eighty-eighth consecutive F-22 delivered on or ahead of schedule. The C-130H aircraft on the adjacent Dobbins ARB ramp belong to the 94th Airlift Wing, an Air Force Reserve Command unit.

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