Mugger Flight...LFA 7 ..."500 feet...500 knots...for 30 mins..Lets Go"..Was what the flight lead was heard saying to his 3 fellow Strike Eagles operating in the TTA on the 20th...Awesome sight and sound
in 30th anniversary special colours of 305 Hikotai. The squadron patch also covers nearly the whole wing area and parts of it can be seen on the airbrake and the taileron.
After a long pause and update work at Gifu the unique EC-1 is flying again from its homebase Iruma. This was a really lucky catch there, and I was not less excited to see it as were also all the other local spotters this day.
Still wearing the markings of her last operational unit - Naval Air Facility, Keflavik, Iceland - this Liftmaster was retired to MASDC in Sept 1984. She reverted to the civil register in 1989 and is now recorded as N4163Q.