Rank 38 in the Aviation Heroes collection, this print centres the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II flown by the JASDF 302nd Squadron at Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture — the unit that traded its F-4EJ Kai Phantoms for Japan's first operational fifth-generation fighter line in 2019. Born at Chitose in 1974 with the white-tail eagle Ojirowashi as its unit mark, the 302nd now fields the CTOL F-35A as a sensor-fused air-superiority and strike platform across Japan's northern approaches. Here the jet sits in clean stealth configuration: bays closed, Hinomaru legible, tail serial 69-8702 and nose 02 rendered as the kind of markings spotters catalogue at open days.