Air National Guard will Exercise over Central New York today, Thursday May 21

An Air National Guard exercise originally scheduled for Wednesday, May 20 was rescheduled due to poor weather conditions

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An F-16 assigned to the South Carolina Air National Guard's 169th Fighter Wing, similar to aircraft due to exercise over Central New York today.

ROME, NY (05/21/2015)(readMedia)-- The Eastern Air Defense Sector will conduct an exercise over portions of southern Lewis and northern Oneida counties on Thursday, May 21, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The exercise was scheduled for Wednesday but was postponed due to weather.

The exercise will involve two F-16 fighter jets from the 169th Fighter Wing, South Carolina Air National Guard and a Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Cessna 182. Most of the exercise will take place in military training airspace commonly used by Air National Guard and Air Force units. Residents south of Lowville, east of Old Forge and in and around Rome, however, may see the aircraft at different points during the exercise.

EADS and its counterpart, the Western Air Defense Sector at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, are components of the Continental U.S. North American Aerospace Defense Command Region (CONR). CONR and the Sectors conduct these types of exercises on a routine basis as part of NORAD's Operation Noble Eagle, which was initiated after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.