The B-2s of the Bomber Task Force deployed to RAF Fairford paid visit to another strategic base in the region. The B-2A “Spirit of Mississippi” (82-1071), one of the three stealth bombers deployed to ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is concerned that the Defense Department's plans to reduce the military and civilian personnel at Lajes Field in the Azores will harm U.S. relations with Portugal, the ...

Instructors from the Air Force Institute of Technology’s Civil Engineer School provided on-site consultation to develop a base master plan for the 65th Air Base Group at Lajes Field in September.

When generals and admirals talk about bases for personnel and equipment, they sound like retail merchants. Location, they say, is everything. That’s why a single concrete runway in a valley between ...

American airmen are being warned not to use water from some Portuguese Air Force-maintained buildings at an airfield in the Azores amid an outbreak of Legionella bacteria. According to an email shared ...

Between Sept. 24 and 27, 12 A-10Cs made a stopover at Lajes Field, Azores, on their way to Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan. The Warthogs, belonging to the 75th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron “Tiger ...

Praia da Vitória, Terceira, the Azores — João Meneses stares out the front passenger-side window as we speed past countless rows of nearly identical beige houses with orange, clay tile roofs, a ...

LAJES FIELD, AZORES, Portugal — Ever since it was created during the early years of America’s entry into World War II, the airfield on this small island in the northeast Atlantic has been an important ...

The Air Force will renovate and expand the Lajes Field passenger terminal in the Azores to make it safer and more comfortable for passengers. The $1 million improvement project will be funded by the ...

Daniel is formerly a research fellow for European affairs in the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at The Heritage Foundation. As a global power, the United States has global interests. Currently, ...

Air Caraïbes TX556 took off from Santo Domingo on it’s 8 1/3 hour flight to Paris Orly when something happened halfway over the Atlantic. The captain declared an emergency 5 hours into the flight and ...

Portugal, July 24, 1985: A construction worker mans a wheelbarrow on a construction site that was part of an enormous building program at Lajes Field in the Azores. The $200 million renovation and ...