Photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Maj. Jarrett Gran, a C-130 pilot with the 103d Airlift Wing, flies his final ‘fini-flight’ over New England before retirement from the Connecticut Air National Guard, Sept. 20, 2025. He shared this final sortie with three other Flying Yankees, Master Sgt. Michael Baycura, Maj. Michael Jacoby, and Lt. Col. Michael Armstrong, flight crew with the 103d Operations......
Photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Maj. Michael Jacoby is sprayed with water and champagne by enthusiastic friends and family following his final ‘fini-flight’ before retirement from the Connecticut Air National Guard, East Granby, Connecticut, Sept 20, 2025. The fini-flight is a long-standing tradition that invites family and friends to celebrate the culmination of an aviator’s career. Jacoby......
Photo by Senior Airman Emme Drummond | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Michael Baycura, a flight engineer with the 103d Operations Group, and Maj. Jarrett Gran, a pilot with the 103d Operations Group, are btoh sprayed with champagne and water by excited friends and family as they walk off of a C-130 Hercules following their fini-flight, East Granby, Connecticut, Sept 20, 2025. The fini-flight is a long-standing tradition that......
Photo by Senior Airman Emme Drummond | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Lt. Col Michael Armstrong, a pilot in the 103d Operations Group, is sprayed with champagne by happy family and friends as he completes his final ‘fini-flight’ aboard the C-130 Hercules, East Granby, Connecticut, Sept. 20, 2025. The fini-flight is a long-standing tradition that invites family and friends to celebrate the culmination of an aviator’s career.......
Photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Michael Baycura, a flight engineer with the 103d Operations Group, smiles as he sees the crowd of family and friends waiting on the flight line following his final C-130 ‘fini-flight’ with the Connecticut Air National Guard, East Granby, Connecticut, Sept 20, 2025. Baycura completed this quadruple fini-flight with Lt. Col Michael Armstrong Maj. Michael......
Photo by Senior Airman Emme Drummond | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Lt. Col. Michael Armstrong flies a C-130 Hercules over waiting friends and family moments before landing and competing his final ‘fini-flight,’ East Granby, Connecticut, Sept. 20, 2025. This was also the culminating sortie for three other Flying Yankee aircrew: Maj. Michael Jacoby, Maj. Jarrett Gran, and Master Sgt. Michael Baycura. (Photo by U.S. Air National......
Photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Major Scott Duguay, a pilot with the 103d Airlift Wing, discusses flight plans with Maj. Michael Jacoby, another Connecticut Air National Guard pilot, during Jacoby’s final career sortie over the White Mountains, New Hampshire, Sept. 20, 2025. Jacoby completed this quadruple fini-flight with Lt. Col Michael Armstrong, Maj. Jarrett Gran, and Master Sgt. Michael......
Photo by Capt. Jennifer Kaprielian | 103rd Airlift Wing, Bradley Air National Guard Base | 09.20.2025
U.S. Air National Guard Maj. Jarrett Gran, Maj. Michael Jacoby, and Master Sgt. Michael Baycura, C-130 H flight crew with the 103d Operations Group, look out over the coast of Cape Cod during a quadruple ‘fini-flight’ sortie over New England, Sept 20, 2025. These three completed their fini-flight one the same day as Lt. Col Michael Armstrong, a pilot with the 103d Airlift Wing. (Photo by......
