News and Events - Air Force News

On Feb. 23, 1909, the first heavier-than-air, powered, controlled flight lifted off from the ice-covered Bras d'Or Lake at Baddeck, Nova Scotia...

The Canadian Forces look to their medical technicians here in Canada to perform the all too important casualty evacuation function at home during Operation Podium...

The torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games — a 106-day, 45,000-kilometre trek across Canada — is the longest domestic torch relay in history...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper travelled on a diplomatic mission to Haiti, where Air Force members have been given the task of maintaining vital air support...

From January 13 to 21, 13 SAR techs from Course #43 got a small taste and feel of what it takes to survive in Resolute Bay, Nunavut...

Canada’s CU-170 Heron unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) recently achieved a milestone of 5,000 hours of operational flying time...

Lieutenant-Colonel Dave Cochrane has been selected to take command of 8 Wing Trenton, Ont. effective on February 19, 2010 upon his promotion to the rank of colonel...

On February 12, 2010, it was announced that Colonel Cochrane was selected to assume command of 8 Wing Trenton on February 19, 2010, upon his promotion to the rank of Colonel...

On February 10, 2010, movie star Angelina Jolie visited Jacmel, Haiti where members of the Canadian Forces have been keeping the country’s second air entry point open...

Captain Denis Beaulieu received the Medal of Bravery from Governor General Michaëlle Jean last week for saving a man from drowning in 2007...

Dr. Hutchinson has temporarily left his practice in 100 Mile House and Williams Lake, B.C. to work as a flight surgeon helping to bring injured Canadians back home from Haiti...

MCpl Christa Strickland, of North Sydney, Cape Breton, has deployed to Haiti with her home unit of 86 Airfield Systems and Utilities Unit, 8 Wing Trenton, Ont. to help with humanitarian relief efforts in the wake of the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake...

NORAD is providing aerospace warning and aerospace control during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. It is a role with which NORAD is very familiar...

Traffic technicians at Trenton have been working around the clock helping to prepare, build, load and unload more than 2.5 million kilograms of humanitarian relief supplies and equipment...

Sergeant Dave Payne holds a six-month-old baby during a medical evacuation flight from Port-au-Prince to an American hospital ship, USNS Comfort, on Feb. 1, 2010...