Chanute Field News Today

The aviation community celebrates national Aviation Maintenance Technician Day, which marks the birth of the first aircraft mechanic.

Subcommittee was unanimous it would like to keep the missile “if it was economically feasible.”

Visibility was little more than a mile when Colonel William H. Councill sent his pencil-slim Lockheed P-80 fighter whooshing down the runway at Long Beach,…

Col. Everett K. Spees Jr., M.D., Ph.D., D.Div. passed away on Jan. 11, 2024, at the age of 90 in Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, after living with multiple myeloma for seven years. Dr. Spees was born into a military family in Chanute Field, Ill., in 1933, the second child of Everett K. Spees Sr. and Maude […]

After a checkered career, this B-18 Bolo is on display in Denver.

The Illinois Central Railroad estimated it would carry at least 15,000 fans from Chicago to the game.

The exhibit of military history memorabilia from World War I to the moder era will be open through November at the Cross County Mall.

To the average citizen, the Air Force’s involvement in Rantoul ended three decades ago. To the village of Rantoul it’s taken a full three decades.

The missile has stood at the former west entrance of the base since it was erected in April 1966. Coincidentally, Smith, who was stationed at Chanute, arrived there in June

This week's letters brought comments from readers about unidentified aerial phenomena, the National Museum Of The U.S. Air Force's acquisition of a PT-17, and attitudes toward unleaded avgas.