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July 3, 2024
PHOTOS: Team Fairchild Honors Col. Dycus and CMSgt. Arcuri's Final Flight

Final flights, also known as “fini flights,” are a tradition among pilots and aircrew to celebrate one’s last flight with their unit or airframe. Dycus and Arcuri served as Fairchild Air Force Base’s key leaders since 2022. (U.S. Air Force photos by Airman 1st Class Clare Werner)
May 28, 2024
Instructor in-flight refueling specialists train Airmen for FAFB critical mission set

In-flight refueling specialist instructors, also known as instructor boom operators, are crucial to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing’s mission to support America’s warfighting capabilities with global reach and combat support. Their ability to develop students, inside and outside the jet, is a key
May 17, 2024
PHOTOS: Sky's No Limit - "She is Anything" Airshow 2024

Attendees toured the KC-135 and spoke to the pilots and in-flight refueling specialists about their responsibilities and capabilities. Since 2012, over 140,000 women and girls of all ages and cultures have attended the Sky's No Limit airshow. The all-female KC-135 aircrew assigned to the 384th Air
May 14, 2024
PHOTOS: Fairchild Air Force Base demonstrates rapid generation capabilities during Royal Flush

Royal Flush was a two-part Air Mobility Command readiness exercise that evaluated the ability to rapidly respond and execute mobility fundamentals and non-standard techniques to provide global mobility at a moment’s notice. In a 72-hour period, Fairchild AFB launched 44 KC-135 sorties. This exercise
March 29, 2024
PHOTOS: 92nd Air Refueling Wing demonstrates strategic deterrence readiness for Titan Fury 24-2

During the exercise, Airmen demonstrated how Fairchild AFB generates and provides, when directed, specially trained and equipped aircrews to conduct critical air refueling of U.S. Strategic Command-assigned strategic bomber and command and control aircraft. For decades, the KC-135 Stratotanker has
March 22, 2024
92nd Air Refueling Wing demonstrates strategic deterrence readiness for Titan Fury 24-2

Airmen assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing conducted exercise Titan Fury 24-2 at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, March 18-22, 2024.During the exercise, Airmen demonstrated how Fairchild AFB generates and provides, when directed, specially trained and equipped KC-135 Stratotanker crews to
Oct. 18, 2023
PHOTOS: Team Fairchild Hispanic Heritage Month Flight

Team Fairchild held this incentive flight to commemorate the end of National Hispanic Heritage Month. The flight brought Hispanic community members from across the installation aboard to witness the aerial refueling of multiple B-52 Stratofortresses while also serving as a symbol of Hispanic
Aug. 18, 2023
509th Weapons Squadron creates KC-46 Weapons Instructor Course

Airmen assigned to the 509th Weapons Squadron welcomed the addition of KC-46 Pegasus pilots responsible for creating the new KC-46 Weapons Instructor Course at Fairchild Air Force Base in May of 2023. The 509th WPS recruited six KC-46 instructor pilots from around the Air Force to build a syllabus
June 27, 2023
Team Fairchild Leads 100 Years of Aerial Refueling Celebration

Multiple KC-135 Stratotankers assigned to the 92nd Air Refueling Wing and the 141st Air Refueling Wing prepare for and perform a minimum interval takeoff at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, June 27, 2023. The movement, which included stops at Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore and
May 17, 2023
509th Weapons Squadron supports SOF exercise, prepares for WSINT

Airmen from the 509th Weapons Squadron integrated with the 14th Weapons Squadron providing air refueling for a special operations forces exercise at Hurlburt Field, Florida, May 7-10. The purpose of the training for the 509th WPS was to expose its students to the Special Operations mission set and

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