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Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 3, 2018
Renay Davis, a San Francisco resident and protest organizer, said four of the 12 people who turned out for the demonstration were arrested early Tuesday at Creech Air Force Base, about 45 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Clark County jail records show four women ranging in age from 62 to 75 were heldÃâà...
KTNV Las Vegas
April 3, 2018
Renay Davis, a San Francisco resident and protest organizer, said four of the 12 people who turned out for the demonstration were arrested early Tuesday at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas. Clark County jail records show four women ranging in age from 62 to 75 were held on misdemeanorÃâà...
FOX5 Las Vegas
March 27, 2018
The incident happened just after 4:00 p.m. when a security dog was alerted to a suspicious piece of equipment in a construction truck there to do pavement work, at the front gate of the Air Force Base in Indian Springs, according to officials. A Creech AFB public affairs spokesperson said a routine traffic stopÃâà...
WHIO
March 22, 2018
According to Nellis Air Force Base, the pilot was killed when his F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed around 10:30 a.m. during a routine aerial demonstration training flight at Creech Air Force Base outside Las Vegas. Last month, News Center 7 was granted rare access to be with the Thunderbirds at the Nevada Test and TrainingÃâà...
WHIO
March 17, 2018
The Nevada Test and Training Range is a vast and wide-open space in the middle of the desert at Creech AFB and provides plenty of open air space for the Thunderbirds to ... Bedell will have more information on the crash, and his visit to Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases at Noon and starting at 5 p.m. on News Center 7.
Aviation International News
March 13, 2018
On March 9 the U.S. Air Force held a ceremony to officially bring the service's operational employment of the pioneering General Atomics RQ/MQ-1 Predator to a close. The event took place at Creech AFB, Nevada, the base near Las Vegas that is the center of U.S. Air Force RPA (remotely piloted aircraft)Ãâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 12, 2018
The USAF's 432nd Wing at Creech Air Force Base (AFB) in Nevada, which is the focal point for the United States' global UAV operations, marked the retirement with a local flight of an MQ-1B controlled by airmen of the 489th Attack Squadron. At about the same time, a final Predator combat flight was flownÃâà...
Aerotech News (blog)
March 12, 2018
Joseph, 432nd Operations Group commander, delivers remarks for the 15th Attack Squadron's casing ceremony March 9, 2018, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. The final MQ-1 Predator combat line was flown in an undisclosed area of responsibility by Airmen of the 15th ATKS during the official MQ-1Ãâà...
News3LV
March 12, 2018
But the ceremony wasn't for a commander or sergeant. Instead, it was for one of their drones. The MQ-1 Predator had been assigned to units all over the world. Friday's ceremony is to not only recognize the Predator's efforts, but also those of the entire crew and support staff which helped to make the missions successful.
FOX5 Las Vegas
March 10, 2018
The Air Force retired a remotely piloted aircraft Friday. The MQ-1 Predator has been essential in keeping American's safe. The Air Force has been using the aircraft for the last 23 years. It's manned by a pilot and a sensor operator from a cockpit on the ground. This allows the Air Force to put fewer men outÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
February 20, 2018
“This year will be an exceptionally busy year for the men and women of Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases as we take on new and more complex missions and systems while simultaneously increasing the Air Force's lethality and leading our readiness recovery,” he said. The release noted that the air showÃâà...
Air Force Link
February 20, 2018
An MQ-1 Predator sits on the flight line Dec. 8, 2016, at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. The Predator started as an RQ-1 in the late 1990s, providing only reconnaissance capabilities until the early 2000s, when it was equipped with two AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and designated as a multirole asset. (U.S. AirÃâà...
AirForceTimes.com
February 16, 2018
The Air Force will officially retire its iconic, groundbreaking — and controversial ― MQ-1 Predator on March 9, officials at Creech Air Force Base said. ... First Lt. Annabel Monroe, a spokeswoman for Air Combat Command, said that the Air Force is still figuring out what it will do with its retiring Predator fleet.
Dayton Daily News
December 31, 1999
The Nevada Test and Training Range is a vast and wide-open space in the middle of the desert at Creech AFB and provides plenty of open air space for the ... Bedell will have more information on the crash, and his visit to Nellis and Creech Air Force Bases at Noon and starting at 5 p.m. on News Center 7.
Dayton Daily News
December 31, 1999
Stephen Del Bagno was killed in a crash this week in his F-16 Fighting Falcon at the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds training facility, he and other members of ... a briefing before a training flight News Center 7 was invited to attend in late March at the Nevada Test and Training Range at Creech Air Force Base.
Military Times
December 31, 1999
An MQ- Reaper remotely piloted aircraft performs aerial maneuvers over Creech Air Force Base, Nev., June 25, 2015. Two missiles fired from a U.S. drone hit a militant facility in neighboring Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgents, said Pakistani intelligence officials and Taliban commanders. (Senior Airman CoryÃâà...
Breaking Defense
December 31, 1999
Creech Air Force Base's 432nd Wing will celebrate the retirement today of the MQ-1B Predator, the drone that changed the world. That phrase is no overstatement. The Predator was the first weapon in history whose users could stalk and kill a single individual on the other side of the planet from a position ofÃâà...
