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  • USAFA visits Aviano AB

    Cadets from the United States Air Force Academy rugby team learn about flight equipment during a tour at Aviano Air Base, Italy, March 21, 2025. In order to gain a better understanding of how Wyvern Nation performs day-to-day operations and prepare them for their transition to the occupational side

  • Aviano demonstrates readiness in Exercise Fighting Wyvern 25-01

    The 31st Fighter Wing led an international Combat Readiness Exercise, Fighting Wyvern 25-01, from March 3-14 to enhance agile combat employment capabilities and strengthen U.S. interoperability with Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. The exercise was designed to test the 31 FW’s ability to generate,

  • Prefect of Pordenone visits Aviano

    Prefect of Pordenone, Michele Lastella (left), accepts a commander’s coin from U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Tad Clark, 31st Fighter Wing commander (right), after his first visit as Prefect to Aviano Air Base, Italy, Jan. 14, 2025. Lastella met with several units around the 31st Fighter Wing to include

  • BAK-12 installation strengthens Slovak partnership

    Airmen from the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing completed the installation of a new Barrier Arresting Kit-12 allowing U.S. Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa F-16 Fighting Falcons to land at Malacky Air Base, July 10.

  • Aviano AB SERE specialists team with Croatian partners

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgts. Dylan Rogers and Christopher Koehler, 31st Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, attended the highest-level SERE training conducted in NATO for individuals labeled “High-Risk of Isolation,” run by the Croation army, at Slunj,

  • Aviano AB SERE specialists team with Croatian partners

    U.S. Air Force Staff Sgts. Dylan Rogers and Christopher Koehler, 31st Operations Support Squadron survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, attended the highest-level SERE training conducted in NATO for individuals labeled “High-Risk of Isolation,” run by the Croation army, at Slunj,

  • Milan Consul General Visit to Aviano AB

    Douglass Benning, U.S. Consul General of Milan, visited the 31st FW to foster relationships with Italian air force counterparts as well as to familiarize himself with Aviano AB’s units and their missions.