F-15D -Lakenheath Reaper-

F-15D -Lakenheath Reaper-

This is a recreation of F-15D Eagle USAF Serial 86-0182. It appears to have been a rather popular bird given how many photos exist of it. 86-0182 was one of the first two Eagles delivered to RAF Lakenheath's 493rd Fighter Squadron "Grim Reapers" in the early-mid 1990s and served a long tenure being flown until late 2014, when it unfortunately crashed and was written off.

This skin depicts its appearance approx. 2014, with its particular camouflage pattern recreated according to contemporary photographs (no pattern on the right stabilator is intentional)  - personnel listed on the aircraft also correspond with timestamped photos, to my knowledge. It also carries the USAFE insignia on the vertical stabilizers, as well as 48th Fighter Wing & 493rd Fighter Squadron emblems by the intakes.

As a tidbit, the 493rd FS has since retired their Eagles, and as of now they fly the F-35A Lightning II.

LAKENHEATH REAPER:

• []F-15D Eagle, United States Air Force serial 86-0182, as depicted in 2014 serving with RAF Lakenheath's 493rd FS.
  • []Custom OADF markings for Trigger depicting his time in Mage, Spare, and Strider squadron throughout the Lighthouse War. For skin slots 4, 5, and 6.

  BLANK:
  • Blank slate. For skin slots 1, 2, and 3.

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  Textures use BC7 compression with mipmaps disabled to improve in-game quality. Let me know what you think and if you encounter any bugs.

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  INSTALLATION:

  Place the files you want to use in the AC7 game directory as follows:

  ACE COMBAT 7\Game\Content\Paks\~mods\

  If no ~mods folder is present then you can create one there.