President Richard M. Nixon dedicates the new US Air Force Museum building at Wright- Patterson AFB, in Dayton, Ohio. A drive to raise private funds for the new museum building had begun in 1960.
More than 20 tankers lined the runway at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., on March 27, for an “elephant walk” and the base’s largest mass launch of aircraft ever. Sixteen KC-46s and five KC-135s participated in the flush, with aircraft and Airmen from the 22nd Air Refueling Wing and the 931st…