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KINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The Air Force has selected the Oregon Air National Guard’s 173rd Fighter Wing as the preferred location to host the service’s next F-35A Lightning II training squadron. The F-35A is the Air Force’s latest and most-capable fifth-generation fighter.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - Chaplains from around the state of Oregon, both Army and Air National Guard, converged at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon for annual training, March 23-26.
Read MoreCORVALLIS, Ore. - Law enforcement agencies are asking for help locating a missing 22-year-old who was last heard from on December 18. His family said he disappeared without a trace.
Read MoreThe National Football League signals the start of every game with the National Anthem and quite often the last note is punctuated with the roar of fighter jets streaking overhead in a show of patriotism.
Read MoreCULTUS LAKE, Ore. - U.S. Air Force F-15C pilots from the 173rd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard, and the 144th Fighter Wing, California Air National Guard, spent a day preparing for an emergency ejection over water during water survival skills training at Cultus Lake in Central Oregon, July 16, 2022.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Sentry Eagle open house returns tomorrow for the first time since 2017. This is without a doubt Klamath Falls’ premier must-do, can’t miss, free event of the year. The open house event takes off at 9:00 AM at Kingsley Field, Saturday, June 25.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - For several days in late April, two KC-135 tanker aircraft from the 141st Air Refueling Wing called Kingsley Field, in Klamath Falls, Ore., home, while they practiced warfighting skills—supplying fighter aircraft with gas being a prime example.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - A local charity organization was named the 2022 Zachary and Elizabeth Fisher Humanitarian Award recipient out of the entire National Guard consisting of 54 states and territories.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore . – A change of command will take place May 15, 1 p.m. at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. Colonel Lee Bouma, who has nearly 25 years of military experience, will take command of the 173rd Fighter Wing during an official change of command ceremony.
Read MoreOregon National Guardsmen are traveling to more than 40 hospitals across the state to assist with heavy patient loads and short staffing threatening future patient care, Feb. 4, 2022.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. - The Kingsley family is a regularly referenced part of working at the 173rd Fighter Wing, a small, southern Oregon Air National Guard base. People say it conveys the tight-knit community shared by Airmen who work, raise their families, and often socialize together.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - December Edition of ‘No Slack in No Time’ features updates regarding Kingsley hospital support, the grand opening of the Resiliency Center, virtual reality as Eagle training, maintenance operations & part fabrication, and fall family day.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing out of Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore. will conduct a Veterans Day flyover for a ceremony in Klamath Falls. F-15 Eagle fighter jets are scheduled to conduct a flyover at Veterans Memorial Park in Klamath Falls, Ore. at, or around, 11:00 AM on Thursday, November 11.
Read MoreKLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — On an unusually hot Friday at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon, U.S. Air Force Col. Jeff Edwards, 173rd Fighter Wing commander, and Brig. Gen. Donna Prigmore, Oregon Air National Guard (ANG) commander, assembled on the ramp to welcome Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, ANG director, as he stopped to visit Kingsley Field on June 25, 2021.
Read MoreThe 173rd Fighter Wing recently promoted an Airman who has risen through the ranks to become the new operations group commander. Lt. Col. Jason Nalepa donned his dress blues jacket with silver eagles on the epaulets denoting the rank of colonel for the first time during a promotion ceremony presided over by the Brig. Gen. Donna Prigmore, the commander of the Oregon Air National Guard, November 6, 2020.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore. – The 173rd Fighter Wing is seeking community input as part of their Environmental Restoration Program Community Involvement Plan.
The Air National Guard (ANG) implemented the Environmental Restoration Program to investigate and address contamination that occurred in the past due to leaks, spills or other practices that are no longer acceptable under today’s environmental regulations.
Read MoreSALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Air National Guard received news Friday from the Secretary of the Air Force regarding the Air Force’s plans to replace the Oregon Air National Guard’s aging F-15C/D Eagles at both Oregon wings with the newly updated F-15EX model. Kingsley Field, Oregon in Klamath Falls, is scheduled to transition to the Air Force’s first F-15EX formal training mission beginning in 2022, and the Portland Air National Guard Base is scheduled to become the first operational F-15EX squadron in 2023.
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, [8/17/20] Representative Greg Walden (R-Hood River) released the following statement applauding the U.S. Air Force’s decision to have Kingsley Field, home of the 173rd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard, host the U.S. Air Force’s first F-15EX formal training mission as well as the decision to replace the base’s aging Air National Guard F-15C aircraft.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD - The 173rd Fighter Wing constructed a new aircraft tail display July 2, 2020, which originated as the right vertical stabilizer of the Oregon Air National Guard 75th Anniversary F-15 Eagle heritage aircraft, tail number 79-041.
Read MoreKINGSLEY FIELD, Ore — The 173rd Fighter Wing finished a week of night flights at Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Ore., Thursday, July 16, 2020. These flights are a part of the training syllabus that all incoming students must complete, making night flights a regular occurrence in the Klamath Basin.
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