The 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan, now expects to receive the first of 36 F-15EX fighters sometime between March and June 2026.

La primera fase de las pruebas de vuelo del avión de pruebas en vuelo (FTA) Excalibur ha concluido con éxito en las instalaciones de QinetiQ en Boscombe Down (Wiltshire).

The first phase of flight tests by the Excalibur Flight Test Aircraft (FTA) have been successfully completed at QinetiQ’s Boscombe Down facility in Wiltshire.

Cebu Pacific initiated a new four-times-weekly service from the Filipino island to Osaka/Kansai on October 15.

The US State Department recently approved a Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Japan for Boeing KC-46A tankers and related equipment.

All Nippon Airways has announced a trio of new European routes from its Tokyo/Haneda hub.

A new concept model of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) aircraft was unveiled at this week’s Farnborough International Airshow.

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Historic Archives recently placed an aviation artefact of international importance on public display in Yokohama.

Following the tsunami warning that was issued after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck approximately ten miles (16km) southwest of Hualien City in Taiwan on April 3, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) quickly moved to prevent any damage being caused to its F-15J Eagle fighters at Naha Air Base in Okinawa.

Japan Airlines’ (JAL) first Airbus A350-1000 has arrived in Tokyo.

The USAF is reportedly considering a plan to permanently replace the legacy F-15C/D Eagle fighters assigned to the 18th Wing at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, with a smaller number of new F-15EX Eagle IIs

Un CV-22B Osprey operado por la USAF se estrelló frente a la isla de Yakushima (Japón) el 29 de noviembre, causando la muerte de los ocho aviadores que iban a bordo y obligando a suspender las operaciones del rotor basculante en todo el mundo. Este incidente supuso el segundo accidente mortal de un Osprey en 2023, después de que un MV-22B del USMC -asignado a la 1ª Ala Aérea de Marines (MAW)- se estrellara en la isla de Melville (Australia) en agosto, matando a tres de los 23 marines que iban a bordo.

A USAF-operated CV-22B Osprey was lost off Yakushima Island, Japan, on November 29, killing all eight airmen on board and resulting in a global operational stand-down of the tiltrotor

El 13 de octubre, la base aérea de Kadena, en Okinawa (Japón), dio la bienvenida al primero de varios vehículos aéreos de combate no tripulados (UCAV) MQ-9A Reaper operados por la USAF que está previsto desplegar en la base, también conocida como la "Piedra Angular del Pacífico".

On October 13, Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan, greeted the first of several USAF-operated MQ-9A Reaper unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) that are scheduled to deploy to the base, which is also referred to as the ‘Keystone of the Pacific’