Photos showing some of the aftermath of the Jan. 16, 1965 crash of a KC-135 Stratotanker shortly after it took off from McConnell Air Force Base (Courtesy USAF 22nd Air Refueling Wing History ...

Throughout aviation history, plane crashes associated with Wichita have been rare. In fact, Wednesday’s crash of a American ...

The flight that took off from Wichita, only to meet disaster in Washington, has reminded some residents of past crashes that ...

The KC-135 had just taken off from McConnell Air Force Base and could not get enough ... (USAF 22nd Air Refueling Wing History Office) Piatt plane crash (Courtesy: Wichita-Sedgwick County ...

The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled U.S. and Canadian fighter jets last week to accompany a formation of ...

Trump has named his pick for Air Force ... joined the Air Force through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps program at South Dakota State University in 1988. He served as a KC-135 Stratotanker ...

a former Air Force KC-135 tanker aircraft navigator and former deputy of the National Reconnaissance Office, as his choice to serve as the top civilian leader for the Air Force. Meink has almost ...