Four Air Force’s Secretive U-28A Draco ISR Aircraft Make Stopover at Aviano AB On Their Way Back From Deployment
November 4, 2020 David Cenciotti Military Aviation
The U-28A Draco, on their way back to CONUS from the U.S. Central Command area of operations, made a stopover at Aviano AB, in Italy.
Between Oct. 29 and 30, 2020, four U-28A Draco aircraft, serial 07-0840, 07-0838, 05-0409 and 08-0790, belonging to the Air Force Special Operations Command, landed at Aviano AB, in northeastern Italy. Flying as RCH1016, RCH1018, RCH1020 and RCH1022, the ISR (Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance) aircraft were on their way back to Hurlburt Field, Florida, home of the 492nd Special Operations Wing and its four child units: the 5th, 34th, 318th, and 319th Special Operations Squadrons (SOS).
The aircraft arrived at Aviano from Souda Bay, Crete, and departed again for Ramstein on the very same day (08-0790 on Oct. 29, the remaining three on Oct. 30). Their trip back home included a subsequent stopover in Prestwick, UK, where the four U-28s arrived on Nov. 2, 2020.
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