AFMC Command News

Tropical storm moves aircraft, crews to Wright-Patterson AFB

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  • By 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
More than 250 aircrews, maintenance and security personnel from east coast bases, along with 108 aircraft, deployed to Wright-Patterson AFB Sept. 4-5 to avoid potential damage by Tropical Storm Hanna.

Six C-17 Globemaster III aircraft from Charleston AFB, S.C., relocated here. Seventy five F-15E Strike Eagles deployed here from the 4th Fighter Wing, Seymour Johnson AFB, N.C. Navy and Marine aircraft, including an E-2 Hawkeye from Naval Air Station Norfolk and F-18s from NAS Oceana, also relocated here.