Boeing announced last week that it has delivered the newest upgrade to the Air Force’s F-15E mission training centers at Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C., and RAF Lakenheath in Britain. The upgrade, Suite 5, brings the realistic, high-fidelity simulators used in these centers to the same configuration as the actual F-15E cockpits, including the ability to deploy the small diameter bomb, the company said. Boeing also said it delivered a four-ship F-15E training system to Mountain Home in March and expects to deliver a four-ship system to the Seymour Johnson MTC this month. In August, the F-15E MTCs are scheduled to join the US military’s distributed mission operations network that allows aircrews in one location to train with pilots dispersed at other worldwide sites.
The last remaining T-1 Jayhawk at JBSA-Randolph, Texas, took its final flight to the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., on July 15. The 99th Flying Training Squadron will train pilots using T-6 and simulator until it gets T-7 Red Hawk in fiscal 2026.