The KC-135 Stratotanker that lost part of its vertical stabilizer in a deadly midair collision over Iraq in March is among a group of damaged tankers that have returned to Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., to be fully repaired.
Tinker Air Force Base
The Air Force has finished resurrecting a B-1B Lancer, completing a yearslong process to transform a bomber that had been stored for parts in the Arizona desert into the new flagship of the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
More than a quarter-century after handing over the mission to the Navy, the Air Force is taking the first steps towards taking back over a critical nuclear command, control, and communications function.
The Pentagon is considering ditching the Air Force’s plan to buy the E-7 Wedgetail as it looks to outsource the airborne target-tracking mission to space, defense officials indicated this week.
The future of the Air Force’s acquisition of 26 Boeing E-7 Wedgetail aircraft is in doubt under spending plans that are being weighed by the Trump administration.
Air Force leaders and industry officials have long extolled the benefits of additive manufacturing, promising a future where maintainers use 3D printing technology to manufacture replacement parts faster than they can be shipped across the world. Now, a small group of engineers, technicians, and machinists are ...
Just a few hallways removed from the massive industrial floor of Building 9001, where technicians, welders, mechanics, and more help keep the U.S. Air Force’s fleet flying, the Air Force Sustainment Center Software Directorate doesn’t bend any metal, change any fluids, or fiddle with any wires. ...
The Air Force is resurrecting yet another of its B-1 bombers from the “Boneyard” at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. This marks the second B-1 regeneration in just a few months.
Air Force bases in Kansas and Oklahoma evacuated their aircraft ahead of severe weather over Memorial Day weekend, but no Air Force installations in the region experienced any serious issues from the storms, which caused more than two dozen deaths and massive power outages across ...
A few years after retiring to the Boneyard, a B-1B Lancer is coming back to life to replace another bomber that was catastrophically damaged at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. The 7th Bomb Wing announced the B-1 “regeneration” in a March 18 release, marking the first ...
The Air Force’s E-3 Sentry AWACS fleet is down to just 18 aircraft after the service completed its latest round of retirements at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., last month. The 13th and final AWACS airframe to be retired in fiscal 2023 left the base on ...
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