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ROME, N.Y. - The Eastern Air Defense Sector will conduct an exercise over portions of southern Lewis and northern Oneida counties on Wednesday, May 20, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The exercise will involve two F-16 fighter jets from the 169th Fighter Wing, South Carolina Air National Guard and a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cessna 182. Most of the exercise will take place in military training airspace commonly used by Air National Guard and Air Force units.
Residents south of Lowville, east of Old Forge and in and around Rome, however, may see the aircraft at different points during the exercise.
EADS and its counterpart, the Western Air Defense Sector at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, are components of the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region (CONR). CONR and the Sectors conduct these types of exercises on a routine basis as part of NORAD's Operation Noble Eagle, which was initiated after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
| Date Taken: | 05.20.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 05.20.2015 09:18 |
| Story ID: | 163932 |
| Location: | ROME, NY, US |
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