President Richard M. Nixon dedicates the new U.S. Air Force Museum building at Wright- Patterson Air Force Base, in Dayton, Ohio. A drive to raise private funds for the new museum building began in 1960. Now called the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, it is the world’s largest and oldest military aviation museum.
An Air Force pilot learning to fly the new OA-1K inadvertently shut off the plane’s fuel in the middle of a training sortie last October, leading to the Skyraider II crashing in an Oklahoma field, according to a new investigation report.