142nd Fighter Wing To Host Aerospace Control Alert Exercise - 07/24/18

PORTLAND, Oregon – The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Fighter Wing will host a three-day Aerospace Control Alert CrossTell live-fly training exercise, July 24-26, 2018, alongside aircrews and associated support personnel from across the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region’s air defense enterprise.

Representatives from Air National Guard fighter wings, U.S. Coast Guard rotary-wing air intercept units, and Civil Air Patrol will conduct daily live-fly sorties to hone their skills with tactical level air intercept procedures.

During the exercise, Air National Guard F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft and U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 helicopters will conduct intercept operations of Civil Air Patrol C-182 aircraft. 

The training scenarios will replicate airborne intercepts of aircraft that fly into airspace the Federal Aviation Administration has established as “temporarily flight restricted airspace.”

About the 142nd Fighter Wing

The Portland Air National Guard Base employs 1,500 Airmen who provide an economic impact of nearly $500 million to the region. The 142nd Fighter Wing defends our homeland with F-15 Eagle fighter jets, guarding the Pacific Northwest skies from northern California to the Canadian border, on 24 hour Aerospace Control Alert as part of Air Combat Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Their mission is to provide unequalled, mission ready units to sustain combat aerospace superiority and peacetime tasking any time, any place in service to our nation, state and community.