Editing Area 51 (section)

===Later operations===
[[File:F22 Area51.jpg|thumb|F-22 during a [[Red Flag exercise]] with Groom Lake in the background (March 2013)]]
Since the F-117 became operational in 1983, operations at Groom Lake have continued. The base and its associated runway system were expanded, including the expansion of housing and support facilities.<ref name="FASOverhead"/><ref name="space_com_expand">{{cite web |url=http://www.space.com/news/area51_exclusive_00421.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010926202205/http://www.space.com/news/area51_exclusive_00421.html |archive-date=26 September 2001 |title=Images of Top-Secret U.S. Air Base Show Growth |publisher=space.com |author=Mary Motta |date=22 April 2000}}</ref> In 1995, the federal government expanded the exclusionary area around the base to include nearby mountains that had hitherto afforded the only decent overlook of the base, prohibiting access to {{convert|3972|acre|km2}} of land formerly administered by the [[Bureau of Land Management]].<ref name="FASOverhead"/>