The last two AC-130U Spooky gunships returned home from the US Central Command area of responsibility on July 8, 2019, at the completion of their combat deployment. New AC-130J Ghostriders have assumed the tasking. The final pair to depart the Middle East were AC-130Us, serial numbers 89-1056 and 90-0167, which routed through Ramstein, Germany, and Mildenhall England on July 3, before crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
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