A new mission has been ordered up for the Battle Creek Air National Guard Base.
The 110th Airlift Wing learned today that it will fly drone aircraft — the MQ-9 Reaper — from the base at W.K. Kellogg Airport, said Col. Ronald Wilson, base commander.
Community leaders had lobbied hard for the base to get C-130 aircraft based here, but the effort was unsuccessful.
“It is disappointing as many folks around our community have fought hard trying to get us this flying mission,” Wilson said in a press release this morning.
“We will move forward and be an outstanding RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) unit and we are excited for the MQ-9 mission,” said Wilson, “this is the way of the future in aircraft technology.”
The press release described the MQ-9 as “an armed, multi-mission, medium-altitude, long endurance RPA (remotely piloted aircraft).”
Timing for the beginning of the mission was not immediately known.
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