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Nicole Malachowski was born Nicole Ellingwood in Santa Maria, California, to Cathy and Robert Ellingwood. [11] In high school, she was a cadet member of the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol [12] and participated in AFJROTC, where she was rated cadet colonel, the highest rank a cadet could achieve.
Luke Air Force Base is an active-duty F-16 Fighting Falcon training base with 170 F-16s assigned. The host command at Luke is the 56th Fighter Wing (56 FW), under Air Education and Training Command's 19th Air Force. The base population includes about 7,500 military members and 15,000 family members.
She then completed Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals training at Randolph AFB (Bexar County, Texas) in November 1999. In August 2000, she graduated from her initial F-16 training at Luke AFB ( Maricopa County, Arizona ) becoming the first African American female fighter pilot in the USAF.
Jeannie Marie Leavitt (née Flynn; born c. 1967) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) general officer.She became the U.S. Air Force's first female fighter pilot in 1993, and was the first woman to command a USAF combat fighter wing. [2]
The 607th Air Control Squadron (ACS) is a unit of the 56th Operations Group, 56th Fighter Wing at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. Its primary mission is to train Airmen to perform key roles in command and control operations around the world.
His final air show was on November 13, 1999, at Luke Air Force Base. His last flight in his famous Shrike Commander was on October 10, 2003, from Lakeland, Florida, to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., with long-time friend Steve Clegg.
Like its two sister squadrons, the 62d and 63d FS, the 61st Fighter Squadron was reassigned to Luke AFB, Arizona flying Block 25 F-16C/Ds. When the squadron moved to Luke AFB, Arizona, the squadron continued in its duties in a training role as Luke AFB became the primary F-16 training unit for the United States Air Force. [2]
1977 – The first woman navigator candidates report to Mather AFB, California, to begin undergraduate navigator training. 1974 – “Turbo” Tarling flew his 5,000th T-33 hour. 1972 – First flight of the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is an American single-seat, twin-engine, straight-wing jet aircraft designed for close air support.