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F-117 Nighthawk ‘Final Four’ participate in retirement ceremonies. Holloman AFB and USAF Plant 42, Palmdale, Calif. April 21-22, 2008 Text & photography by Brian Emch From ‘Have Blue’, ‘Senior Trend’, and ‘Wobbly Goblin’, to ‘The Black Jet’, ‘Gray Dragon’, & ‘Nighthawk’ The end of an era began April 21st at Holloman AFB in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Following a morning ceremony at the base, the final four operational Lockheed F-117A Nighthawks took off and headed west, towards Palmdale, California’s famous Lockheed Skunk Works facility, for one last ceremony before they are officially retired to their ‘ancestral’ home at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, near the mysterious Groom Lake airfield. At Tonopah, their wings will be removed and they will go into storage. Due to their sensitive nature, they will not be coming to the ‘Boneyard’ in...

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