A UH-1N helicopter assigned to Fairchild AFB, Wash., surpassed 17,000 total flying hours during a recent sortie, racking up the most flight hours of any UH-1 in the Air Force’s inventory, according to the base’s 36th Rescue Flight. “To know that we have the highest flight hours in the Air Force, and for the helicopter to still perform so well, is a testament to our maintainers at Fairchild,” said Maj. Tyler Rennell, 36th RQF evaluator and the pilot of the UH-1N, serial number 69-6648, for the milestone sortie on Feb. 24. “An aircraft designed in the 1960s and maintained for nearly half a century is still being flown today with the highest mission capable rate of any other platform in the Air Force,” he added in the base’s April 10 relea?se. The 36th RQF supports survival, evasion, resistance, and escape training in Washington.??
NASA Boss: Race to Moon Has National Security Stakes
Sept. 15, 2026
NASA is pushing hard to get astronauts back to the moon by 2028—and the urgency is driven in no small part by the national security implications of doing so before China does, Administrator Jared Isaacman said Sept. 15.
