Tagged: 61st Fighter Squadron

Airshow / demo teams / fighters / Formation Flying / legends / U.S. Air Force / warbirds

March 14, 2016

A Tradition Of Training, The 2016 Heritage Flight Conference

Creating a Heritage: In 1997, during the 50th anniversary of the USAF celebrations, a most unique formation took to the skies. That formation included the latest aircraft in the USAF arsenal wing tip to wing tip with vintage warbirds....

air force / fighters / friends / news

March 18, 2015

Luke 1 flies first ‘student’ F-35 sortie

The 56th Fighter Wing officially began training new F-35 pilots today when the first student, Brigadier General Scott Pleus, 56th Fighter Wing commander, flew the wing’s first training sortie. Luke has a long and storied history of training fighter...

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December 20, 2014

First Australian F-35A arrives at Luke AFB ,AZ

The Royal Australian Air Force got an early Christmas present on December 18th, 2014 with the arrival of their first F-35A multirole fifth-generation strike fighter, to be based at Luke AFB. Photorecon.net was invited to cover this monumental event....

air force

August 27, 2014

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE LAUNCHES 100TH F-35 SORTIE

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. – Luke Air Force Base launched its 100th F-35A sortie at approximately noon on Tuesday. “Flying the 100th F-35A sortie at Luke is a tremendous accomplishment,” said Maj. William Andreotta, 61st Fighter Squadron chief...

Interviews / military / post

February 18, 2014

Dr Sky interviews Lt. Col. Michael Ebner

Recently, I had the high honor of interviewing Lt. Col. Michael Ebner/ Commander of the 61st Fighter Squadron, one of the oldest squadrons at Luke and one that will soon get the new F-35A fighter. Here is the interview ...