After more than 40 years of providing close air support, air interdiction and force protection for special operations forces, it is finally time for Gravedigger and its seven surviving peers to officially retire.Ī crowd, including veterans from nearly every stage of the Spectre’s life, cheered as a plaque detailing the history of the aircraft was unveiled at the air park.
Rattles and rumbles emit from the aircraft, echoing the generations of crew who have supported missions stretching from the Vietnam era to the present. – “Gravedigger,” a stately AC-130H Spectre gunship, stands sentinel May 6 near the main gate of Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., as tales of its extensive list of achievements echo across scores of spectators.Ĭharacteristic New Mexico winds whip through Cannon’s Air Park and briefly, Gravedigger twitches to life, its rudder, flaps and ailerons shuddering as if with the memory of the multitude of sorties it has flown.
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