In 1966, US Navy pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos and captured by guerrilla fighters during the Vietnam War.

Trading the flight deck for the jet bridge after a career of service.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retired Navy Capt. Royce Williams will receive the Medal of Honor for shooting down four Soviet MiG-15 fighters in November 1952.

Two Naval pilots had to be rescued from the water Monday night after an unspecified 'mishap' led to them being ejected from their aircraft.

Lawmakers say the Navy has been looking the other way on a potential brain-injury crisis in its cockpits. A scathing new House Oversight Committee report faults the service for failing to seriously ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Virginia (WABC) -- A group of female pilots are planning to make history this weekend while honoring a fallen legend. The Navy will perform its first ever, all-female flyover Saturday ...

For decades, US Navy pilots have worn either the HGU-55P or HGU-68P helmets. Developed by Gentex Corp., the HGU-55P was first introduced in the 1980s, with the HGU-68P following in the 1990s. Since ...

The US Navy called off the search for a missing crew member on Sunday after his helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea last week. The MH-60S Sea Hawk, assigned to the USS George HW Bush aircraft ...

Former Navy pilot Matthew “Whiz” Buckley joins “Elizabeth Vargas Reports” to discuss the death of Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, a U.S. Air Force member who fell while rappelling from the stadium ceiling ...

A military training fighter jet crashed off the coast of California Tuesday, with the pilot rescued from the water by a search-and-rescue helicopter, officials told CNN affiliates KMPH and KCRA.

We tend to use the word aviator interchangeably with the word pilot. One important distinction, though, is that U.S. Air Force pilots typically won't refer to themselves as aviators, preferring ...