Global Hawk settles at Robins Published Sept. 23, 2011 By Jenny Gordon 78th Air Base Wing Public Affairs ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- An RQ-4 Global Hawk arrived at the Museum of Aviation Tuesday, after traveling on board a C-5 Galaxy cargo plane from Beale Air Force Base, Calif. The unmanned aircraft, which has flown more than 7,000 combat hours, was recently retired from the Air Force. It is scheduled to be on elevated display in November in the Century of Flight Hangar. The Robins museum is only the second museum in the Air Force to obtain a Global Hawk aircraft. "The museum is very pleased to be receiving this Global Hawk UAV for display," said Ken Emery, museum director. "It has served extensively in Iraq and Afghanistan with 357 combat sorties supporting combat operations. It represents a modern mission that the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center supports, and represents some of the latest technology and missions of the Air Force." The aircraft's last flight was in May from a base in southwest Asia. It eventually was flown to Beale, then Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., before arriving at Robins. During its service, it flew more combat sorties than any other Global Hawk. It was part of Block 10, part of the Air Force's first group of production aircraft. At Robins, the Command & Control, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Division, C2ISR, of the center's Aerospace Sustainment Directorate performs program management for the RQ-4 Global Hawk, as well as other unmanned aircraft systems. The Global Hawk is a high altitude, long- endurance unmanned aircraft system. It includes an integrated sensor suite which provides worldwide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capability.