A news report from Michigan claims that a state forester has found the wreckage of an Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion that crashed in 1964 after taking off from K.I. Sawyer AFB, Mich. The pilot, who ejected safely, was with the Minnesota ANG, reports WLUC TV 6 news. The question of the moment is why the wreckage was never removed. A Minnesota Guard spokesman told the news station that “times were much different then.”
The 13th Fighter Squadron from Misawa Air Base, Japan, deployed its new F-35A fighters to a major exercise for the first time, sending them to Pacific Air Forces’ premier air combat training event: Red Flag-Alaska.