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Regular Joe
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After patrolling skies from Panama to Iraq, last F-117s will be mothballed  | The last F-117s are set to be mothballed after almost three decades. | Getty Images / Getty Images file |
updated 7:13 a.m. ET, Tues., March. 11, 2008 DAYTON, Ohio - The world's first attack aircraft to employ stealth technology is slipping quietly into history. The inky black, angular, radar-evading F-117, which spent 27 years in the Air Force arsenal secretly patrolling hostile skies from Serbia to Iraq, will be put in mothballs next month in Nevada. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, which manages the F-117 program, will have an informal, private retirement ceremony Tuesday with military leaders, base employees and representatives from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The last F-117s scheduled to fly will leave Holloman on April 21, stop in Palmdale, Calif., for another retirement ceremony, then arrive on April 22 at their final destination: Tonopah Test Range Airfield in Nevada, where the jet made its first flight in 1981. The government has no plans to bring the fighter out of retirement, but could do so if necessary. 27 years I had no idea.
 I took the road less traveled and that made all the difference.......
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