SIOUX FALLS – The adjutant general of the South Dakota National Guard encouraged business leaders in Sioux Falls to make a “full-throated” case for bringing newer Air Force jets to the city.
The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing is located at Joe Foss Field, near the Sioux Falls Regional Airport. There are 450 full-time and 650 part-time staff stationed there, maintaining and operating a squadron of 18 permanently assigned aircraft.
Those aircraft are F-16 fighter jets, but South Dakota officials want to see those jets,first built in 1988 and 1989, replaced with F-35s…