Tucked behind Durango-La Plata County Airport lies the Durango Airtanker base – a hot swath of asphalt that for the past several weeks was home to three very special airplanes. The three repurposed ...

RAMONA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Cal Fire San Diego will soon begin a construction project at its Ramona Air Attack Base to prepare it for the arrival of a new air tanker. Crews will demolish and ...

All three suffered “nozzle binding” events when the tanker’s fuel probes got stuck in fighter planes during refueling.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – When you are fighting a wildfire, the name of the game is speed. How quickly can you get resources on a wildfire? For those working at the Grand Junction Air Center, the ...

JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST (WPVI) -- New Jersey's second-largest employer is getting an extended lease on life now that the Air Force picked it to host its next generation of air refueling ...

RAMONA, Calif. — A "significant" Cal Fire construction project at the Ramona Air Attack Base, being designed to accommodate a new air tanker, will begin next week. According to a news release issued ...

A $12 million construction project at the Ramona Airport will provide much-needed improvements to Cal Fire’s air-attack base there and allow it to more quickly load fire retardant onto larger air ...

AUGUST 12TH. NOW TO A KCRA THREE NEWS EXCLUSIVE. OUR ERIN HEFT BRINGS US INTO TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE FOR A BEHIND THE SCENES LOOK AT THE IMPRESSIVE EQUIPMENT HELD ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, NOT JUST ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- With wildfires raging throughout Central California, firefighters are taking to the skies. Action ...

A “significant” Cal Fire construction project at the Ramona Air Attack Base, being designed to accommodate a new air tanker, will begin next week. According to a news release issued Sunday, the agency ...