A total of 700 personnel from the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and United States Air Force (USAF) joined forces to train under the first leg of the Cope Thunder-Philippines 2024 (CT PH 24-1) at the Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on Monday, April 8. The bilateral military exercise aims...
Philippine Air Force (PAF) FA-50PH light fighters and Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) T-50B aircraft demonstrators participate in a friendship flight during the opening day of the Black EAgles Airshow and Friendship Flight at the Clark Air Base in Mabalacat City, Pampanga on March 3, 2024. The...
Pilots from the Republic of Korea Air Force's (ROKAF) 53rd Air Demonstration Group (Black Eagles) fly eight KAI T-50B Golden Eagle aircraft and perform acrobatic stunts during an airshow at Basa Airbase in Floridablanca, Pampanga on August 15, 2022. (Photo by Philippine Air Force) Supersonic jets...
FA-50 light fighter jets of the Philippine Air Force fly with a B-52H bomber aircraft of the United States Pacific Air Force for its first ever combined air patrol over the West Philippine Sea on February 19, 2024. (Photo by PAF) The Philippines, through the National Security Council (NSC),...
FA-50 light fighter jets of the Philippine Air Force fly with a B-52H bomber aircraft of the United States Pacific Air Force for its first ever combined air patrol over the West Philippine Sea on February 19, 2024. (Photo by PAF) Three FA-50 light jet fighters of the Philippine Air Force (PAF) and...
A water cannon salute is given to the Philippine Air Force's newest acquisition, a C-130H tactical transport aircraft, during its arrival at Clark Air Base in Mabalacat City, Pampanga on February 19, 2024. (Photo by PAF) The Philippine Air Force (PAF) welcomed its newest C-130H tactical transport...
WHAT'S ON YOUR MIND? -- Revered tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od muses as she rides a Philippine Air Force Blackhawk helicopter from Buscalan, Kalinga to Manila on Feb. 14 to 15, 2024. (Photo by PAF) Revered tattoo artist Apo Whang-Od flew onboard a Philippine Air Force (PAF) Blackhawk helicopter from...
State-run Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) will transfer the Philippine Air Force (PAF) housing facilities from Air Force City, Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga to New Clark City in Tarlac. In a statement on Tuesday, Jan. 30, the BCDA said the relocation project would cost P4.24...
Department of National Defense (DND) Seretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. delivers a speech during the unveiling of the newly rehabilitated runway of Basa Air Base in Floridablanca, Pampanga on nov. 6, 2023. (Photo by Philippine Air Force) The rehabilitation of the 2.8-kilometer runway at Basa Air Base in...
(L-R) Swedish Ambassador to the Philippines Annika Thunborg and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. meet at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Sept. 8, 2023. (Courtesy of AFP) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will purchase multi-role fighter aircraft...
At the Philippine Air Force’s 76th anniversary celebration on July 3, 2023, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. spelled out in clear terms the significance of its continuing mission. He urged the men and women of the PAF to uphold the values of integrity, excellence and patriotism “as the...
Philippine Air Force (PAF) pilots were engaged in a simulation exercise focused on counter air mechanics with the United States Air Force (USAF) to increase their interoperability in combat operations. (An FA-50PH aircraft from the Philippine Air Force and an F-16 aircraft from United States Air...
