According to the Clovis News Journal, only one entity has put in a bid to house operations at Cannon AFB, N.M., and that is Air Force Special Operations Command. The Air Force mounted a PR blitz to show off the base, which must find a new mission by 2010 or face closure, to DOD and other government agencies. Neighboring Arizonans even sought to shift some of their unwanted military aircraft operations to Cannon.
Deliveries of Boeing’s troubled KC-46A Pegasus tanker to the U.S. Air Force have restarted after a roughly three-month pause, the aerospace giant announced. Two KC-46s were delivered to Travis Air Force Base, Calif., May 16, after a pause due to cracks in multiple brand-new aircraft that led the USAF to…