World War I was the laboratory that transformed airplanes from vehicles of limited capability into reliable weapons of war. The “World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation” exhibition highlights both ...

Efforts to defend the nation’s airspace can be traced back to San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston, which is considered the ...

Spanning more than 2,600 acres (1,050 hectares) in the Arizona Desert, the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ...

The Thunder Over East Texas Air Show dazzles with historic military aircraft and aerobatics, blending aviation history with ...

The Saturday morning sky was a cloudless blue, a half-moon still dangling in the west. Down below, crowds were already tapping credit cards at the food stalls and grinning for family cellphone shots ...

What's the most iconic airplane in history? Some might say it's the unmistakable pointy-nosed speedster Concorde, or perhaps the World War II superstar that was the innovative Supermarine Spitfire.

Relive the heroics of D-Day with a once-in-a-lifetime flight aboard a restored WWII C-47 Skytrain, complete with a mission briefing and reenactors. The American Airpower Museum in Farmingdale, New ...

FORT KNOX, Ky. — It’s said that the journey is often more rewarding than the destination. For one century-old fragment of laminated wood, the journey began while soaring over the wooded landscape of ...

Throughout U.S. military history, a small number of aircraft have done something more disruptive than outperform their predecessors. They broke assumptions. By introducing capabilities that existing ...

Some of the most capable aircraft ever flown by the U.S. military came with an unspoken cost: extraordinary logistical demands. From stealth bombers that required climate-controlled hangars to ...