US Air Force News

Two Air Force pilots from the 499th Tactical Fighter Wing based in Hsinchu, Northern Taiwan ejected to safety Monday when their Mirage jet crashed off the western coast shortly after takeoff.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force's planned fourth building will now include aircraft from the Research and Development Gallery, along with a new Presidential Gallery, an expanded Space Gallery and select global reach planes.

Soldiers board a C-130 during an exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., in February. The combined joint training exercise was to prepare elements of the 82nd Airborne Division and its partners to act as part of the Global Response Force.

The KC-46A is intended to replace the U.S. Air Force's aging fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers.

For almost every workday over the past ten months, a 35-year-old first lieutenant in the Texas Air National Guard has done little more than sit in the Lackland Air Force Base library.

Police in Boise have arrested a 49-year-old woman after officers say she refused several requests to return a lost dog to its owner.

Wichita's McConnell Air Force Base has been selected to be the main operating base for the Air Force's new KC-46A air refueling tanker.

Idaho wildlife officials are urging the federal government to remove grizzly bears from the endangered species list.

Tears ran down Deborah Walker Barber-Tully's cheeks, as she thanked a room full of people at the Onslow County Superior Courthouse Monday night.

The World-Herald has published many stories about the effects of the automatic cuts to federal spending known as sequestration.

Airman 1st Class Mark Armstrong , Staff Sgt. Keith Billings and Senior Airman Garron Theriault remove an Advanced Concept Ejection System from an A-10 Thunderbolt II May 17, 2013, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

An F-35A Lightning II approaches a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling May 13, 2013, near Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

Spokane business and civic leaders are anxiously awaiting an anticipated announcement Wednesday as to which Air Force Bases could be home to the KC-46A tanker.

U. S. Air Force C-141 Starlifters, C-5 Galaxy's, and C-17 Globemaster III's, are staged on the ramp of Rhein-Main Air Base, Germany, on December 12, 1995.

Newscast Media CAPE CANAVERAL-Just a few days ago, the United States Air Force launched a satellite into orbit via an Atlas V rocket.

Beechcraft Corp. has appointed a regional sales director for Beechcraft products in Sub-Saharan Africa, Kingsley Okoli, the company announced.

With 160 full time military and civilian employees, the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport has an annual economic impact of $65 million.

The Air Force's decision to accelerate its introduction with a slightly less capable version of the F-35 software package means the planes will carry fewer weapons at first, although the software will later be upgraded to the final version, said the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.

The U.S. Air Force is expecting to save a serious amount of cash as a result of deploying 18,000 iPads.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Monday of plans to conduct a foreign military "sale" of an F-16 Formal Training Unit, or FTU, to the Netherlands.