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The United States Air Force confirms that Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio had to temporarily suspend air operations for four hours on Friday and Saturday after the airbase reported sightings of unidentified "small unmanned aerial systems".
2024-12-16

The U.S. Air Force delivers the first of 14 F-16 Fighting Falcons to the Slovak Air Force as part of a $1.6 billion deal signed in 2018.
2024-07-22

A United States Air Force V-22 Osprey crashes off the coast of Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture with six crew members onboard. A search and rescue operation has been launched, according to the Japan Coast Guard.
2023-11-29

Pro-Palestinian protestors clash with police and attempt to overrun the USAF occupying Incirlik Air Base in Turkey.
2023-11-5

A 2-seater Beechcraft plane violates the airspace of seven countries in Eastern Europe, and is intercepted by two Hungarian Air Force Gripen jets, two USAF F-16s and two Romanian Air Force F-16s before being abandoned at an airfield near Targovishte, Bulgaria.
2022-06-9

Two men are arrested and charged with the theft of U.S. government property after allegedly obtaining and selling 1,875 stolen technical orders, including documents detailing the operations, maintenance, and schematics of equipment, from the United States Air Force between 2015 and 2020 in exchange for at least $132,280. The seller worked for Summit Aerospace, while the buyer operated a private company, LTC Products, listed only for aircraft rental services, and they were discovered because of sales to a third company, Newport Aeronautical Sales.
2021-05-14

An Atlas V rocket successfully deployed the fourth SBIRS satellite for the United States Air Force. This launch completes the geosynchronous segment of SBIRS and provides a global missile detection system for the United States.
2018-01-19

The United States Air Force says that as many as 22 people have been inadvertently exposed to anthrax during a laboratory training exercise at Osan Air Base in South Korea.
2015-05-28

The United States Air Force grounds its entire $400 billion fleet of 51 F-35 jets due to a major engine technical issue. During a routine inspection of the aircraft, maintenance personnel detected a cracked engine blade.
2013-02-23

The Boeing X-37B, a United States Air Force unmanned spaceplane, lands autonomously at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, at 1:16am PST (0916 UTC) after 7 1-2 months in space.
2010-12-3