HAVING SERVED as an integral part of US Air National Guard (ANG) counter-narcotics operations for the last 30 years, the USAF is now moving to accelerate the retirement of its 11-strong fleet of Fairchild RC-26B Condor reconnaissance aircraft, a type the service has been pushing to divest in recent years. The USAF's withdrew its RC-26B fleet on December 28, 2022, when pilots assigned to the 115th Fighter Wing (FW), a component of the Wisconsin ANG, at Truax Field Air National Guard Base in Madison, Wisconsin, completed their final operational Condor flight. In total, a group of seven 115th FW pilots and two military information support operators were detailed to the ANG's Counterdrug Program by flying the RC-26B in support of state- and federal-level counter-narcotics, counterinsurgency and homeland security missions.
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