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Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 06:26:31 MT

THE AVIATIONIST · DEFENSE

DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB INACTIVATES ITS LAST A-10C THUNDERBOLT II UNITS...

The 355th Operations Group, 357th Fighter Squadron, 357th Fighter Generation Squadron, and 355th Training Squadron were inactivated during a ceremony, marking the end of A-10 operations at Davis-Monthan.

SCOTT: Types leave the inventory the same way they arrived — one last student, one last crew. Worth remembering the next time someone says a mission airplane is “too ugly to kill.”

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