T-38 begins taxi from the sun shelters at Columbus AFB. (Image credit: John Willhoff) Columbus AFB has been training US pilots since World War II, and that mission continues today. The base closed ...

In May 2018, two pilots ejected from their T-38 near Columbus AFB, and the plane crashed in a remote part of northeast Mississippi. In August the same year, the base halted flight operations for ...

In February 2021, an instructor and student pilot in a T-38 from Columbus AFB crashed and died while training outside of Montgomery, Ala. Prior to that in November 2019, two airmen were killed in ...

A military jet flying out of Mississippi's Columbus Air Force Base crashed in Alabama Friday ... Taggart identified the jet as a T-38 and said it departed from Mississippi on a flight path ...

The Air Force has identified one pilot involved in Friday's T-38 Talon crash in Montgomery ... the 50th Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi, the base said in a ...

Military base officials issued a statement on the crash, saying at 1 p.m. CST, a U.S. Air Force T-38C Talon aircraft out of Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi experienced an in-flight ...

The T-38 Talon trainer, and its newer ... units have been released in connection with today’s crash outside Columbus AFB and no cause for the crash has been suggested. As with all USAF accidents ...

Investigators are currently on site. Columbus AFB officials confirmed the T-38 trainer with the 14th Flying Training Wing. The airport tower reported to Taggart several pilots in the area had ...

Other T-38 crashes, in which the pilots safely ejected, occurred during flights out of Columbus AFB in Mississippi on May 23 and at Vance AFB in Enid, Okla., on Aug.17. Sig Christenson is a senior ...

Two Columbus AFB-based pilots — an American instructor and a Japanese student — were killed in a T-38 crash earlier that year, when their jet crash landed at Montgomery Regional Airport in ...

T-38 Talons from the 14th Flying Training Wing sit under a hangar on Jan. 7, 2022, at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. (Senior Airman Davis Donaldson/Air Force) In a March 15 email to Air Force ...

Columbus is home to Columbus Air Force Base, where the 14th Flying Training Wing of Air Education and Training Command's 19th Air Force train pilots. T-38 jets are one of three aircraft it ...