FLIGHT OF STEALTH FIGHTER SET TONIGHT IN WEST DESERT

The Stealth fighter is scheduled to make its first training flight to Utah's West Desert Wednesday evening, a source said Tuesday.

The F117A will fly out of an Air Force base in Nevada and begin its training mission in the western desert about 7 p.m. while it is still daylight, said the source, who flies F-16 fighters at Hill and who spoke on condition of anonymity.Hill AFB Staff Sgt. Louis Arana-Barradas said he was unaware of any such exercise.

Capt. Thomas Christie, a media spokesman for the Stealth fighter at Langley AFB in Virginia, declined to confirm or deny the mission, saying where and when the Stealth is airborne is "a highly classified matter."

The source said the fighter would not land at Hill.