An F-16 pilot was killed on Sunday in a crash in the Middle East, announced US Central Command on Monday. The crash did not occur in Iraq or Syria, states CENTCOM’s Dec. 1 release. CENTCOM and Air Forces Central Command...
The Air Force last week released the final environmental impact report on its proposed expansion of the Powder River Training Complex in several Great Plains states, reported the Bismarck Tribune of North Dakota. The Nov. 28 posting at the Federal...
The Air Force last month announced that JB Langley-Eustis, Va.; JB San Antonio, Texas; Scott AFB, Ill.; and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, are the candidate bases to host the headquarters of the new Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center. Service...
A Senate delegation visited Mansfield ANGB, Ohio, last week, promoting a scaled-back legacy C-130 avionics upgrade, according to a release. “I am working on legislation to make sure the C-130 will continue to fly and we can accelerate the modernization,”...
The Pentagon’s inspector general determined that the Air Force mismanaged several aspects of the C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program between 2010 and 2013, according to a report released last month. “The government failed to discourage repeated tender of nonconforming...
Air Mobility Command suffered only one serious aircraft mishap in Fiscal 2014, compared to four in the previous fiscal year, announced the command. At the same time, AMC aircraft experienced seven less-serious mishaps, a slight increase from Fiscal 2013, states...
The State Department approved a proposed foreign military sale to Iraq, estimated at $800 million, to sustain the Iraqi air force’s C-130E and C-130J fleets, announced the Pentagon. The package is in response to an Iraqi request for a five-year...
? Members of the Connecticut Air National Guard’s 103rd Air Control Squadron helped install a new radome on the unit’s radar tower near the state’s shoreline at Orange ANG Station, according to a mid-November release. “This is the first radome...