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  • Clean energy partnership demonstrates ‘alternative’ way to move aircraft

    The Hawaii Air National Guard [HIANG] demonstrated the use of alternative energy to tow a KC-135 Stratotanker. A U-30 Aircraft Tow Tractor retrofitted with hydrogen fuel cells was used to tow the 186,000 pound aircraft on the flightline of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and demonstrate the efficacy

  • Hickam Airmen Assist with Maria Relief Efforts

    When it was looking like Hurricane Maria – a potent Category 5 hurricane packing 150 mph winds – would hit Puerto Rico in September, airmen from the Hawaii Air National Guard knew there was a good chance they would be asked to assist with relief efforts. Having just returned from relief missions in

  • Hawaii Air Refuelers Arrive Home

    Airmen from the Hawaii Air National Guard and three KC-135 Stratotankers recently returned home following a six-month deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.