Latest "training jet" stories

Production of Air Force’s next-gen training jet delayed to 2024

Boeing expects the Air Force will order its first set of operational T-7A Red Hawk aircraft in 2024.

By Rachel S. Cohen

6 months ago

A graduate of the 49th Flying Training Squadron's Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals course walks in front of a T-38C Talon Nov. 11, 2020, on Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. The T-38 is a two-seat trainer jet used by student pilots selected for the fighter track in pilot training. (Airman 1st Class Davis Donaldson/Air Force)

Pilot safe after landing gear fails in T-38C training jet mishap

Officials are investigating what caused the landing gear to fail.

By Rachel S. Cohen

7 months ago

Pilot safe after Air Force T-38C training jet crashes in Mississippi

This is the eighth major T-38C mishap in the past five years.

By Rachel S. Cohen

7 months ago

Laughlin Air Force Base identifies student pilot killed in T-38C mishap Friday

Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas has identified the pilot killed in the mishap involving two T-38 Talons Friday as a student aviator.

By Kent Miller

19 months ago

One dead, two injured in T-38C mishap at Laughlin Air Force Base

Seven people have died in T-38 Talon accidents since October 2017.

By Rachel S. Cohen

19 months ago

Training base evacuates T-38s to Florida amid severe weather threat

Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi evacuated some of its T-38 training jets to Florida’s Space Coast as severe weather threatens to batter parts of the South.

By Rachel S. Cohen

2 years ago