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Accidents and incidents

  • In 1996, Eastwind Airlines
    Eastwind Airlines
    Eastwind Airlines was a start-up airline formed in mid-1995 and headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey, United States, and later in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jim McNally, a former Price Waterhouse analyst who had headed that firm's recovery teams when several other airlines sought management and...

     Flight 517 from Trenton
    Trenton-Mercer Airport
    Trenton-Mercer Airport , formerly known as Mercer County Airport, is a public airport located in Ewing, New Jersey, four miles northwest of the central business district of Trenton, a city in Mercer County, New Jersey...

     experienced loss of rudder control while on approach to Richmond, however rudder control was regained shortly after and the aircraft landed normally. There was one minor injury.
  • In 2011, a private twin engine Piper Navajo crashed after take off. There was only one person in the plane at the time of the crash. The pilot suffered burns and was immediately taken to the hospital.

Virginia Air National Guard

Up until October 2007, the 192d Fighter Wing
192d Fighter Wing
The United States Air Force's 192d Fighter Wing is a fighter organization of the Virginia Air National Guard located at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.-Mission:...

 (192 FW), an Air Combat Command
Air Combat Command
Air Combat Command is a major command of the United States Air Force. ACC is one of ten major commands , reporting to Headquarters, United States Air Force ....

 (ACC)-gained unit of the Virginia Air National Guard
Virginia Air National Guard
The Virginia Air National Guard is the air force militia of the U.S. state of Virginia. It is, along with the Virginia Army National Guard, an element of the Virginia National Guard...

, maintaned an Air National Guard
Air National Guard
The Air National Guard , often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Established under Title 10 and...

 Station and operated F-16 Fighting Falcon
F-16 Fighting Falcon
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is a multirole jet fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force . Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft. Over 4,400 aircraft have been built since...

 aircraft from the airport. In late 2007, pursuant to BRAC
Base Realignment and Closure
Base Realignment and Closure is a process of the United States federal government directed at the administration and operation of the Armed Forces, used by the United States Department of Defense and Congress to close excess military installations and realign the total asset inventory to reduce...

 2005 action, the 192 FW relinquished its F-16C and F-16D aircraft, relocated to Langley AFB (now Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Joint Base Langley–Eustis is a United States military facility located in Hampton and Newport News, Virginia. The facility is under the jurisdiction of the United States Air Force 633rd Air Base Wing, Air Combat Command...

), and integrated with the Regular Air Force as an associate unit to the 1st Fighter Wing
1st Fighter Wing
The 1st Fighter Wing is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command Ninth Air Force. It is stationed at Langley Air Force Base, Va...

 (1 FW) flying the F-22 Raptor
F-22 Raptor
The Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor is a single-seat, twin-engine fifth-generation supermaneuverable fighter aircraft that uses stealth technology. It was designed primarily as an air superiority fighter, but has additional capabilities that include ground attack, electronic warfare, and signals...

. The former Richmond International Airport Air National Guard Station property was transferred to the Department of the Army in support of Army Reserve and Virginia Army National Guard activities.

See also

  • Aaron Tobey Richmond Airport 4th Amendment Naked Protest
  • Virginia World War II Army Airfields
    Virginia World War II Army Airfields
    During World War II, the United States Army Air Force established numerous airfields in Virginia for training pilots and aircrews of USAAF fighters and bombers....


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