Rank 40 in the Aviation Heroes collection, this print honours the wing that brought fifth-gen combat power to the USAF fleet: the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, with the 34th Fighter Squadron among the first to transition from Raptor country to Lightning operations. The 388th had already made history as the first operational F-16 wing in 1977; nearly four decades later it repeated the trick with the F-35A, reaching Initial Operating Capability in August 2016 and deploying to RED FLAG, EUCOM, and PACOM within the first operational year. Nestled against the Wasatch Range with Eagle Range training airspace to the west, Hill remains the backbone of USAF Lightning employment — and this artwork reads like a squadron briefing sheet stripped to essentials: unit patch, HL tail codes, ordnance loadout, and the single-engine planform that rewrote what low-observable multi-role looks like.