"Reaching this milestone is significant, but what's more special are the missions we enable every day..."
Source: Lt. Col. Russ Garner, 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron commander, after an MQ-1 Predator assigned to Kandahar Airfield recently became the first Predator to pass 20,000 flying hours over Afghanistan, a feat equivalent to flying 15 hours every other day, for 2,667 days. While the Predator remotely piloted aircraft program surpassed one million hours of total development, test, training and combat in August 2011, this is the first airframe to accumulate 20,000 flying hours individually.