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Nov. 17, 2022
US, UK, Australian and Canadian forces operate as a combined force in exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition

“Fights on” loudly echos across the battlespace kicking off exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition 23-1 at the Distributed Mission Operations Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and distributed sites across four countries, during the first day of an eleven-day exercise.
Oct. 27, 2021
Hill units bring crashed A-10 back to life

Skilled professionals from the 309th Aircraft Maintenance Group and 309th Expeditionary Depot Maintenance Squadron at Hill AFB took a formerly crashed A-10 Warthog and spent more than three years restoring it to a like-new condition. In July of 2018, tail number 80-0264 arrived to Hill AFB in
April 30, 2020
A-10 continues operations after engineers assess battlefield repair

An A-10 Warthog damaged in a deployed location was quickly returned to service after a remote engineering assessment while disbursed in response to COVID-19. After a mission, maintenance crews needed to repair battle damage on an A-10 consisting of a bullet hole in the underbelly skin with an
Jan. 16, 2020
576th AMXS leverages robotic paint stripping technology on A-10 Thunderbolt II

The 576th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is upgrading its traditional manual media blast paint removal process by using new-generation robots to strip the paint from A-10s that come to the base for depot overhaul and maintenance.
Aug. 21, 2019
Air Force awards new A-10 wing replacement contract

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio -- The Air Force awarded a new contract to Boeing Company, St. Louis, Missouri, to replace up to 112 wing assemblies for the A-10 Thunderbolt II.The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a $999,000,000 ceiling, and also provides for up to 15 wing
Aug. 9, 2019
173 to 173: A-10 Enhanced Wing Assembly replacement program comes to an end

Workers at the Ogden Air Logistics Complex at Hill Air Force Base have installed the last of 173 new wings on A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, finalizing a project that started in 2011 with aircraft 80-0173.

US, UK, Australian and Canadian forces operate as a combined force in exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition

Hill units bring crashed A-10 back to life

A-10 continues operations after engineers assess battlefield repair

576th AMXS leverages robotic paint stripping technology on A-10 Thunderbolt II

Air Force awards new A-10 wing replacement contract

173 to 173: A-10 Enhanced Wing Assembly replacement program comes to an end