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  • Laughlin First Assignment Instructor Pilot takes historical final flight

    Col. Andrew Katz, now former 47th Flying Training Wing deputy commander and oldest T-1A Jayhawk First Assignment Instructor Pilot (FAIP) at Laughlin, took his final flight with Team XL’s youngest and final T-1A FAIP, Capt. Cory Villarreal, 86th Flying Training Squadron, marking a historical end to a

  • Col. Lee Gentile bids farewell to Laughlin AFB

    On July 17, 2020, after nearly two years serving at ‘the base on the border’, Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, Col. Lee Gentile, 47th Flying Training Wing commander, stood in the T-6A Texan II locker room preparing for his final flight as a part of Team XL.The bittersweet feeling of finishing an era