The Hagerstown Aviation Museum has acquired a 1993 Fairchild RC-26B Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) to add to its invaluable collection of historic Fairchild built aircraft.
A maintenance specialist for the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s RC-26B reconnasance aircraft marshalls it onto an aircraft ramp at Dane County Regional Airport following it’s final flight Dec. 28, 2022. The RC-26 has been stationed at Truax Field since January 1992, and was assigned to the ANG Counter Drug Program in 1996 supporting both state and federal counter narcotics, counter insurgency and homeland security missions. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Paul Gorman)
French Defense Minister Sébastien Lecornu and the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov have signed a contract on Feb. 1 for the delivery of a short-range air defence system, including a Ground Master 200 radar.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has awarded GA-ASI the contract to manufacture and perform demonstration flights of the Off-Board Sensing Station (OBSS) aircraft.
General Atomic Aeronautical Systems has offered to transfer two company-owned training aircraft, plus the ground control station and other associative equipment to Ukraine to aid its fight against Russia. The American company is charging a symbolic price of $1 for the transfer.