In May 2011, the AAC Apache fleet passed a 100 thousand flying hours, a third of which has been flown in Afghanistan since 2006. A media event was hosted at Wattisham on the 25th May to celebrate this, coinciding with the breaking news that the type would be deployed over Libya as well.

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Static Apache
615 hits -
Wattisham apron
511 hits -
Ready and waiting
517 hits -
Running checks
689 hits -
About to start
1796 hits -
Display crew taxiing out
602 hits -
Landing #1
1273 hits -
Landing #2
541 hits -
Returning to the apron
524 hits -
Setting up the FARP
1352 hits -
Inbound
532 hits -
First Apache in
553 hits -
Second Apache in
534 hits -
Throwing grass up
554 hits -
Close up
658 hits -
Loading the CRV-7s
534 hits -
Breaking out the Hellfires.
552 hits -
Coming out #1
470 hits -
Coming out #2
828 hits