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  • 12th Maintenance Group keeps T-6A Texan IIs flying

    The T-6A Texan II, a single-engine, two-seat primary trainer, plays a crucial role in training Joint Primary Pilot Training students in fundamental flying skills essential for U.S. Air Force pilots.

  • Laughlin AFB's finest kick off Fiesta of Flight 2024

    The Fiesta of Flight airshow kicked off with a rare 6-ship dissimilar formation comprised of two T-1A Jayhawks, two T-6A Texan IIs and two T-38C Talons which flanked the crowd show center at the tail end of the national anthem March 9. Pictured from left to right are the pilots, Capt. Garrett Potts,

  • Columbus | Beating the odds; a T-6 story

    Military aviators step into the cockpits of numerous aircraft throughout their careers, though the odds of those aircraft from their past being together again at the same time and in the same place are low, they are never zero.

  • Civilian maintainers: an integral part of AF mission

    Maintainers, military and civilian, are essential to the Air Force’s nonstop mission. Whether the mission involves providing close air support, moving personnel, pilot training or overall, dominating the skies, there are always maintainers in the background there to support.

  • SUPT instructor pilots undergo PIT

    Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training Instructor pilots from every base across the U.S. learn from the most experienced instructors at Pilot Instructor Training (PIT), in Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas.

  • Sheppard salutes area COVID-19 frontline fighters with Spirit Over Texoma

    Ten aircraft from Sheppard AFB took off at about 4 p.m. May 1, 2020, to pay tribute to those engaged in this fight with flyovers in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma as part of Spirit Over Texoma. Areas included Wichita Falls, Burkburnett, Electra and Iowa Park, Texas, as well as a flyovers in

  • T-6 operational pause lifted today

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO, Texas--Maj. Gen. Patrick Doherty, 19th Air Force commander, has ordered an end to the operational pause of the T-6 Texan II fleet, with flying operations resuming Feb. 27 following the collection and analysis of operational flight test data. The pause was the result of

  • ENJJPT leading the way in new Pilot Training Next program

    When Air Education and Training Command’s newest pilot training program takes to the skies in early 2018 in Central Texas, the fingerprints of the 80th Flying Training Wing’s Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training program will be all over it.