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  • B-52 pilot reconnects with retired aircraft after more than a decade

    Lt. Col. Stephen Miracle, 10th Flight Test Squadron B-52 flight commander, recently took part in a mission to fly a regenerated B-52 from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, to Barksdale AFB, Louisiana. The feat was only the second time a Stratofortress returned to service from

  • Bunch takes command

    Amidst a sea of aviation history, Gen. Arnold W. Bunch, Jr. assumed leadership of the Air Force Materiel Command during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Air Force here, May 31.

  • Welcome to Tinker’s Air & Space Show

       Welcome to the 2019 Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show and Tinker Air Force Base Open House. What a thrilling time! We are honored to open Tinker’s gates June 1-2 to showcase America’s airpower, punctuated with performances by the Blue Angels, the Navy’s premier aerial demonstration team.In

  • Blue Angel brings it home

    U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Andre Webb, a Lawton native, will be returning to the Sooner State to fly in Tinker Air Force Base’s bi-annual Star Spangled Salute Air & Space Show this weekend. “Knowing that I know of a lot of people in the crowd will be pretty exciting,” he said. “It will be a similar feeling

  • Airmen and Sailors graduate from Tinker Airman Leadership School

     Airman Leadership SchoolThirty-seven Airmen and two Sailors recently graduated from Tinker’s Airman Leadership School.Graduates are: 138th Force Support Squadron Senior Airman Gavin PaytonSenior Airman Drake Moffitt 507th Logistics Readiness SquadronSenior Airman Berenice Pitre 552nd Air Control

  • HAWC keeps Tinker Healthy

    (Editor’s note: This article is an installment in a Tinker Take Off series focused on highlighting the work of Tinker helping agencies.)

  • World War II Veteran tours Tinker

    World War II veteran Robert Henley and his granddaughter, Melissa Fullerton, toured Tinker Air Force Base May 29. The 90-year-old spent three years in the Army, followed by a 30-year career working as a machinist here from 1952-1982. In addition to touring the Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex and

  • Tinker air shows instill family legacy

    For 507th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs Specialist Tech. Sgt. Lauren Gleason, working at Tinker Air Force Base is a family tradition, and attending the air shows at Tinker were a memorable part of her childhood.Her father worked on base for nearly 30 years, and would return from work with the