The Republic of Singapore Air Power Peace Carvin II detachment turned 30 this 12 months.
On Apr. 25, 2023, the Republic of Singapore Air Power (RSAF)’s Peace Carvin II (PC II) detachment celebrated thirtieth years of F-16 fighter coaching at Luke Air Power Base, Arizona. Established in 1993, Peace Carvin II is the RSAF’s longest-running abroad detachment. The RSAF personnel in Arizona is assigned to the 425th Fighter Squadron of the U.S. Air Power, whose mission is to supply superior weapons and techniques to pilots, weapon methods officers and upkeep personnel.
As a part of the celebration, officiated by Senior Minister of State for Defence Mr Heng Chee How and hosted by Chief of Air Power, Main-Basic Kelvin Khong and Commander of the RSAF’s Air Fight Command, Brigadier-Basic Lim Kok Hong, commemorative tail flashes on the F-16 had been unveiled.
The 2 jets, each being RSAF’s latest Block 50 airframes, are #01-6024 (Spider on the internet marking with “Peace Carvin II” textual content) and #01-6029 (Lion with “Better of each Worlds” textual content). On Could 11, 2023, #6024 carried out its maiden flight (utilizing callsign “NICKEL 1”) with the brand new tail flash and #6029 flew its second flight earlier than leaving on TDY to Mountain Dwelling, AFB, Idaho for 2 weeks. Our pal Thomas “Taj” Backus took some fascinating photographs of the 2 plane as they returned from their native sorties.
Along with PC II, different Singapore’s abroad coaching detachments within the US embody the Peace Carvin V detachment with the F-15SG fighter plane, and the Peace Vanguard detachment with the AH-64D Apache helicopter.
David Cenciotti is a journalist based mostly in Rome, Italy. He’s the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of many world’s most well-known and browse army aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for main worldwide magazines, together with Air Forces Month-to-month, Fight Plane, and lots of others, protecting aviation, protection, struggle, business, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown a number of fight planes with totally different air forces. He’s a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Power, a personal pilot and a graduate in Pc Engineering. He has written 5 books and contributed to many extra ones.
