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The Air Force is ready to retire four E-8C Joint STARS jets in 2022
Airmen associated with the aircraft can switch to other jobs at Robins Air Force Base or transfer elsewhere.
Offutt airmen say goodbye to troubled but beloved jets
The OC-135B spent the last 20 years flying aerial photography missions — primarily over Russia — in carrying out the international Open Skies Treaty.
By Steve Liewer, Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald via the AP
New in 2021: Older planes bound for the Boneyard
Congress put the brakes on Air Force plans to retire more than 100 aircraft, but the service did get the greenlight to retire some bombers, cargo planes and tankers.
Making Bones: Air Force to develop ‘digital twin’ of B-1 for damage prediction
Digital aircraft replicas may make maintenance faster, more effective and help forecast potential problems.
By Jared Morgan
In a future USAF bomber force, old and ugly beats new and snazzy
The youngest and flashiest bomber, the stealthy B-2, is to be retired first as the Air Force charts a future for it's strategic bombers. The oldest, the Vietnam-era B-52, will retire last.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press