As of January, the B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program has moved into hardware production. Two airframes are now being ...

At 3:39 p.m. on January 21, 1968, the aircraft slammed into the ice seven miles west of the base. The impact carved a ...

Boeing will test new Rolls-Royce engines on two B-52 Stratofortress aircraft at its Port San Antonio facility.

The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is one of the most iconic warplanes of all time and has even become a piece of pop culture itself. More than that, though, the B-52 is one of the longest-serving ...

US airframer Boeing has been awarded a contract worth more than $2 billion to modernise the company’s iconic B-52H heavy-bomber with new turbofan engines. The US Air Force (USAF) approved the funding ...

The cover of Aviation Week & Space Technology’s Dec. 11, 1995, issue featured the U.S. Air Force’s venerable B-52 bomber, accompanying a cover story by Bill Scott on the upgrades that would ensure it ...

Aircrew from the 419th Flight Test Squadron at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., land a B-52 Stratofortress following its ferry flight from Boeing’s San Antonio facility on Dec. 8, 2025. The aircraft, ...

Many of the aircraft currently serving the needs of the American military are decades-old, but only one of them has been officially confirmed to extend its service until it reaches at least a century ...

The U.S. Air Force flew its first B-52 Stratofortress to be loaded with a new and modern Active Electronically Scanned Array radar to Edwards Air Force Base in California on Dec. 8. (James West/U.S.

The B-52H received the AN/APQ-188 AESA radar at Boeing’s San Antonio facility and has now arrived at Edwards AFB for the ground and flight testing planned throughout 2026. The U.S. Air Force has ...

The US Air Force (USAF) has begun the process of evaluating a new radar for its fleet of Boeing B-52H heavy bombers. A lone B-52H, equipped with a modernised active electronically scanned array (AESA) ...

The U.S. Air Force flight test community received the first Boeing B-52 equipped with the RTX APQ-188 radar and related systems, allowing the next phase of the over-budget, $3.3 billion upgrade ...