Interior residents are concerned about noise from Eielson's growing fleet of F-35s — which are loud — and when traveling at supersonic speeds, can cause sonic booms.

Twenty two cadets from Ben Eielson Jr/Sr High School's Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps participated in a basic mountaineering course hosted by Soldiers assigned to the U.S. Army Alaska's ...

A $44 million hangar for F-35 fighter jets at Eielson Air Force Base required $1.6 million to deal with unstable permafrost, including thawing the ground 30 feet beneath the site.

An Eielson spokesperson referred questions about the PFAS cleanup to the Army Corps of Engineers. Guy Warren, a Corps of Engineers project manager, ...

While these projects are built to last, USACE’s history constructing the Eielson F-35 beddown program will serve as a demonstration of its own readiness for when the sixth generation of fighter ...

Eielson AFB's Cool School training area is off limits to civilians, Alaska, 2022. Staff Sergeant Beaux Hebert. Major Preston P. Moon, 35, a 17-year U.S. Air Force veteran and Huey helicopter pilot ...

Eielson Air Force Base entrance in Fairbanks, photographed on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (Emily Mesner / ADN) The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has decided to close Ben Eielson ...

Eielson flew the first mail flight between Fairbanks and McGrath in 1924. He didn’t use this plane for mail delivery, but he did fly the Jenny all over Interior Alaska.

Author's selfie from the backseat of a USAF F-16D fighter jet near Alaska's Eielson AFB, March 2022. I’m about to pull 9 Gs, or nine times my body weight, in the backseat of a $19-million F-16D ...

Wildlife officials euthanized a grizzly bear on Eielson Air Force Base Friday, June 6, 2025, after the bear developed dangerous habits near residents, officials said. News-Miner file image.

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