Has the F22 gone into service yet?

[banquo's_bumble_puppy]

Thought it was supposed to be this year.

[frenat]

Yes. In fact I see them every day. Tyndall AFB will have the first full squadron of F-22's (they're still building the squadron, I think they have 11 or 12 now). Tyndall is a training base so all of the planes here are used for training purposes. So they are not yet operational in a combat sense but there are pilots learning to fly them. They also train F-15 pilots and Air Battle Managers (me) here.

[Kesh]

Yeah, I think they're going into limited service this year. Alaska was supposed to get a bunch of them for winter conditions testing, so I'd expect a few other places are getting them by now.

[Tensor]

Did Luke replace their F-15s with the -22s also? I trained on the -15s at Luke "several" years ago.

[tuffel999]

We used to see them overhead at Dobbins all the time over the last few years. Since they are built(or assembled there) ground, basic tested, and then ferried to Edwards(I think).

[beck0311]

The short answer is sort of. There are a lot of F/A-22s flying, but it wasn't until late October that the first F/A-22 destined for an operational (rather than a test or training) squadron rolled off the assembly line. The team website is here.