Hundreds of call signs may be seen at the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. Source: Carrie Kennedy The origin of aviator call signs is murky, even to military historians. But all agree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 2025 Pensacola Beach Air Show is just days away, which means many are planning to head out to the beach to get a glimpse of ...

If you've ever wanted the chance to be a Top Gun pilot or just wanted a cool call sign to go by, there's a website just for you. Ahead of the release of Top Gun: Maverick on May 27, a new official ...

Tom Cruise is looking for a co-pilot — and it could be you! Ahead of the release of Top Gun: Maverick later this month, the long-awaited sequel to the hit 1986 film, Paramount has launched an ...

The use of call signs goes back to 1912, when each nation was assigned a letter or group of letters for radio stations at the International Radiotelegraph Conference, held in London. The US was ...

The AM radio station formerly known as WMBI no longer has those historic call letters. It officially is now WXES. That’s just one of the call sign changes reported by the FCC for the month of July, ...

In the testosterone-laden world of military aviation, call signs for pilots and other squadron personnel can be really sticky — the more an aviator complains about the moniker his colleagues bestow ...

Though the Washington elite are known to skedaddle from this hot and humid town come August, there was still good news handed down from the FCC for dozens of radio broadcast stations last month.

The US Airways Cactus call sign%2C a piece of Arizona history%2C dates back to 1987. It was used for the last time Wednesday morning%2C a casualty of the merger with American Airlines. Day in and day ...