The Canadian Press reports that Canadian CF-18 fighters supplemented USAF aircraft earlier this month by flying NORAD air defense patrols over the Alaskan coast during the first grounding of USAF’s F-15 fleet. (See above.) Those CF-18s have now returned to their home base in Bagotville. Quebec. An official with Canadian NORAD operations declined to go into numbers of aircraft or other specifics, saying, “We really don’t want to say very much in case they’re called on again.
Air Force depots are not typically meant for quick repair jobs, but during Operation Epic Fury, the service moved some of its stateside heavy maintenance capability forward to fix battle-damaged aircraft closer to the fight.
