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One of the true classics of modern military combat aircraft, the F-15, already looks great and an Air National Guard unit just turned up the volume. The California-based 144th Fighter Wing traces its lineage to 1943 and since 2013 has been flying F-15C Eagles out of the Fresno Air National Guard Base on an air defense mission. To mark the occasion of one of its Eagles, Tail Flash #113, logging an amazing 10,000 flight hours on its airframe, the unit applied a special Stars & Stripes paint scheme. Along with the flag motif, the fighter also carries a stylized eagle with its talons out and an emblem emblazoned with "Peace Through Air Dominance."