Aviation News
The Royal Australian Navy has accepted the first two MH-60 Romeo helicopters from the U.S. Navy during a ceremony at the Lockheed Martin facility in Owego, N.Y. on Dec. 10.
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A TAI Anka UAV crashed while undergoing operational test flights at a military base in Batman, southeastern Turkey on Dec. 6.
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Mike Gibbons, vice president of F/A-18 Super Hornet and EA-18 Growler programs at Boeing, told reporters that his company must decide in March 2014 whether to continue funding to keep the jet’s production line open.
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The U.S. Air Force is carrying out Operation Christmas Drop over remote islands of Micronesia in the Western Pacific this week.
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The F/A-18 Hornet community celebrated the 35th anniversary of the aircraft’s first flight during a ceremony Dec. 9 in the Rear Adm. William A. Moffett building atrium at NAS Pax River.
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