Aviation News
Three EA-18Gs from VAQ-132 have deployed to RAAF Base Amberley for Exercise Growler 2012. They will be there to train with RAAF F/A-18F Super Hornets from No. 1 Squadron.
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Classified U.S. intelligence reports said Iran is so worried about an Israeli attack that its air defense units mistakenly fired on civilian airliners and an F-14.
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Taiwan will dispatch investigators to France to help investigate a Mirage 2000 crash which killed a Taiwanese pilot.
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The 13th Air Force, headquartered at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, inactivated on Sept. 28, in a ceremony which celebrated its 70-year history of supporting the Pacific region.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday a decision to buy 39 IL-476 cargo planes for 140 billion rubles.
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