Earlier this month, an A-10C Warthog ground attack jet arrived at the boneyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. This jet is the first to head into retirement in years and is part of a batch of 21 the U.S. Air Force expected to divest in the coming months. This is in line with the service's desire to retire all of its Warthogs before the end of the decade, an effort that is now starting to move ahead after years of members of Congress blocking such plans.
The first of these 21 A-10Cs to go to the boneyard, which carries the serial number 80-0149, arrived at Davis-Monthan on April 5, but the Air Force only publicly announced it had touched down there earlier this week. The service said that the jet, which started life as an A-10A and was later upgraded to the C model configuration, had logged a total of 14,125 flight hours in the course of its career.
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