An F-22A Raptor operated by the 199th and 19th Fighter Squadrons taxis to its parking spot at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Sept. 18, 2024. (Catherine Daniel/U.S. Air Force)

KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa — For the second time in as many weeks, an F-22 Raptor made a precautionary landing Thursday at the home of the 18th Wing.

The $350 million jet “landed safely without incident” at 9:45 a.m., with no injuries or significant damage to the runway, 18th wing spokeswoman Maj. Alli Stormer wrote in an email Friday.

Emergency vehicles responded to the landing and left the scene at 10:10 a.m., a spokesman for the Okinawa Defense Bureau, an arm of Japan’s Ministry of Defense, said by phone Friday.

Some Japanese officials are required to speak to the media only on condition of anonymity.

The Raptor is temporarily deployed to the base as the wing phases out its fleet of F-15C/D Eagles, Stormer wrote. She did not identify which squadron the Raptor belongs to or what it was doing.

“Due to operational security, we cannot discuss the type of operations the aircraft was conducting when the precautionary landing was made,” she wrote. “Precautionary landings are a standard procedure when pilots notice something out of the ordinary with their aircraft.”

Since officially bidding farewell to its legacy F-15s in December 2022, the wing has rotated fighter squadrons of more advanced warplanes through Kadena to guarantee coverage at a base it calls the “keystone of the Pacific.” Okinawa is northeast of Taiwan on the eastern edge of the East China Sea.

Six Raptors from the 27th Fighter Squadron arrived in April to join Raptors from the Hawaii-based 199th and 19th Fighter Squadrons that came in March.

The landing is the latest mishap involving an F-22 deployed to Kadena on a rotational basis.

Last month, a Raptor deployed from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., to the wing’s 27th Fighter Squadron also made a “precautionary landing” at Kadena. No injuries or damage to the runway were reported, the wing said at the time.

In May, a Raptor rolled off the paved apron after it was towed into a parking space. Weeks earlier, a Raptor was damaged when its nose gear collapsed while being towed on Kadena’s flight line.

Four F-15C Eagles departed Kadena on Aug. 24. Some were reassigned to other units; others went to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group in Arizona, the “boneyard,” the wing announced on Aug. 26.

No date is set for the final flight of the remaining Eagles out of Kadena, the wing said.