TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: The above video originally aired April 21, 2022.
The Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing is scheduled to conduct night-time training flights beginning Monday and continuing through Thursday, weather permitting.
Residents in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan may see or hear F-16 fighter jets, including the use of flares, taking off and landing until about 8 p.m. each night, the guard unit said.
Training flights normally take place during daylight hours, but F-16 pilots and maintenance personnel are required to conduct night operations as part of their overall readiness training, a 180th Fighter Wing spokesman said.
The 180th Fighter Wing also will conduct an air defense exercise over the Hillsboro and Chillicothe areas between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Monday.
People near Hillsboro and Chillicothe may hear and see fighter jets in close proximity to a Civil Air Patrol aircraft, which will play the role of a potential threat in the exercise.
While this exercise is planned to take place in the Military Operating Airspace in southern Ohio, officials will move the exercise to the Military Operating Airspace in northeast Michigan near Elkton, Bad Axe and Cass City if there is inclement weather.
Based at Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport the 180th Fighter Wing's mission includes supporting NORAD and U.S. Northern Command operations.
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