The Department of the Air Force on Friday said it awarded Sierra Nevada Corp. a $13 billion contract to replace the service's ...

The second Boeing 747-8 arrived in Dayton after a 12-hour flight from Seoul and will be converted to a ‘Doomsday’ aircraft at ...

It costs nearly $160,000 per hour to fly the E-4B, making it the most expensive airplane the Air Force operates. And it's built to survive a nuclear blast. To prevent radiation, the windows have a ...

which maintains and operates a fleet of four E-4B Nightwatch airborne command post jets at Offutt. The 610th Command & Control Squadron, an Air Force Reserve unit based at Davis-Monthan Air Force ...

The deployment of the 305th EARS represents the beginning of an enduring presence of the KC-46A Pegasus in the CENTCOM AOR, ...

Boeing reported its Starliner landed safely at 00:01 Eastern time on Saturday, September 7th. It touched down at White Sands ...

A Northern Nevada-based aerospace and defense company saw a key rival eliminated from a high-profile program to replace the Air Force’s “Doomsday plane.” Sierra Nevada Corp. remains the only ...

Large hangars for the base’s fleet of RC-135 and E-4B aircraft were damaged ... Don Bacon — an Air Force veteran who once commanded the 55th Wing — worked to secure funding to clean ...

Six weeks into the new fiscal year, Boeing has yet to deliver any of the 15 KC-46 tankers it owes the service by next ...

One way or another, the 65-year-old school — on Air Force grounds — must be rebuilt. The alternative, renovating it, would cost much more. Passage of Initiative 4B would authorize bond sales ...

The U.S. Air Force was officially established on September 18, 1947, and has since proven itself as an unrivaled force in aviation. However, its roots extend back to the early 20th century ...

Sierra Nevada Corp.’s work on modernizing the “Doomsday plane” reserved for key U.S. leaders in the event of war or a national emergency is well underway in a secure hangar near the Dayton ...