News and Events - Air Force News

Search and Rescue technicians, aircrew, maintainers, and other support personnel from 8 Wing Trenton today began an annual search and rescue exercise in Churchill, Manitoba, which will run from May 13-17...

The Honourable Peter MacKay today announced an updated approach to military fitness, officially called the Fitness for Operational Requirement for Canadian Armed Forces Employment program...

Today, the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, and Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird extended Canada's assistance to France until Feb. 15...

Re - Canadian Press article entitled ''RCAF yet to be ordered to look at aircraft options other than F-35." The information shared with the reporter is incorrect. Work continues on the evaluation of options...

Governor General David Johnston has invested Lieutenant-General Charlie Bouchard, O.C., C.M.M., M.S.C., C.D. (Ret’d), as an officer of the Order of Canada last Friday at Rideau Hall in Ottawa...

Command of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) officially changed hands at a ceremony held today at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa...

The Canadian Forces launched its annual national Search and Rescue exercise (SAREX) in Val-d'Or, Quebec yesterday. The exercise will continue until September 22...

Mr. Chris Alexander joined the men and women of 426 Transport Training Squadron today in dedicating the new Air Mobility Training Centre in honour of former Wing Commander Sedley S. Blanchard...

Major-General Pierre St-Amand today assumed command of 1 Canadian Air Division from Lieutenant-General Alain Parent at a formal ceremony held at 17 Wing, Winnipeg, Man...

An injured hiker was medevaced from the Nootka Trail in British Columbia by members of the Canadian Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Air Force on Tuesday night, July 17...

The Royal Canadian Air Force will conduct Operation Northern Reach in several of Canada’s Northern communities from July 12 to 26, 2012 and in the Yukon, specifically, from July 21 to 25...

Three Canadian Forces Search and Rescue technicians will receive the International Maritime Organization Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea, at a ceremony to be held in London, U.K., on November 26, 2012...

The pilots, crews and aircraft of several nations are flying alongside members of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in an international live-fly military exercise hosted by 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alta., throughout the month of June...

Chris Alexander, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence, marked the construction of 8 Wing’s new fire hall during a sod-turning ceremony today in Trenton, Ontario...

L-3 WESCAM of Burlington, Ontario, has been awarded a contract worth up to $10 million for the repair and overhaul of surveillance sensors on the CF’s fleet of CH-146 Griffon helicopters...