Air Force's Special Operations Crop Duster Plane Will Be Flown for Training at Oklahoma Base

Gabriel Pecheanu

An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane used for special operations , an announcement that comes as watchdogs question the aircraft's future in combat. In a ceremony last week, Will Rogers Air National Guard Base in Oklahoma City announced it would become home to Air Force Special Operations Command's newest aircraft, the OA-1K Sky Warden, an armed single-engine aircraft modified from an Air Tractor frame