Peering out the hangar doors at the Chico Air Museum is a bright yellow 1943 Fairchild PT-26, the kind of plane that gave many Canadian and American pilots their first wings.

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

World War II marked a significant push in military aircraft innovation, eschewing most of the biplanes from the previous war ...

A World War II-era flying boat made a stop in the Bay Area on Sunday as part of a highly anticipated trip to its new home: an aviation museum in Arizona. The Philippine Mars, a cargo ...

The Army helicopter and regional American Airlines jet that collided over Washington are both workhorse aircraft that operate around the world on a ... in the 2001 war film “Black Hawk Down ...

The Navy plans on naming its fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier after World War II hero Doris 'Dorie' Miller, an African-American sailor recognized for his heroism during the 1941 attack on Pearl ...

African American troops line up, National Archives The military's view toward African Americans during World War II reflected that ... shooting down several Japanese planes. Miller was awarded ...

Working with the Jewish underground paramilitary, the Haganah, Schwimmer led a team of World War II veterans to break an American embargo and smuggle 125 military planes and more than 50,000 ...