After years in use, the F-117 was retired to make way for a new generation of stealth aircraft. So why is the legendary stealth jet still in flight?

Although the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter jet has officially been replaced by the F-22 Raptor jet, it appears to still be in service, disguised as cruise missiles. In fact, the history of the ...

The U.S. Air Force revived approximately 45 F-117 Nighthawk stealth aircraft after their 2008 retirement. The U.S. Air Force ...

The United States Air Force officially “retired” the F-117A Nighthawk from active service in 2007—yet, the single-seat, subsonic twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed’s secretive ...

Applied Research Associates (ARA) has received authority from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to fly its Nighthawk IV micro-unmanned aircraft at its facility in Randolph, Vermont. The ...

How the world’s first stealth combat aircraft went on to change forever the way the U.S. fought wars. As night fell over Baghdad on January 16, 1991, a small army of maintainers and pilots gathered ...

Key Point: Relatively few F-117s are resting in boneyards. In a March 19th Instagram post, an aviation enthusiast posted several photos of an F-117 flying in Star Wars Canyon in California. The canyon ...