NY Air National Guard's 174th FW Last Manned Flight

When the unit deployed on June 10th for their last combat mission the MAZDA flights were heard taking to the skies on their last manned mission. When the nearly 200 members of New York Air National Guard's storied 174th Fighter Wing landed at Hancock Field last Tuesday from a two month deployment to Iraq, they ended over 60 years of manned flight.

The "Boys from Syracuse" will relinquish their F-16 C/D Fighting Falcons and take on a new mission of piloting the unmanned MQ-9 Reaper remote controlled drone.