During the relentless bombing of Japan in 1945, North Field on Tinian, with its four 8,000-foot runways and 40,000 personnel, became the largest and busiest airport in the world. The B-29 ...

The US Air Force is developing more dispersed bases to counter the threat posed by China's missiles. That effort includes construction at established facilities and the reclamation of disused outposts ...

More than seven decades ago, the planes that dropped two atomic bombs on Japan took off from a small airfield on the Pacific island of Tinian in the Marianas. They were just two bombing missions among ...

The Air Force may call to mind fabulous images of fighter jets, stealth bombers and enormous transport planes in flight. But it takes elbow grease to keep those aircraft aloft, and one of the ...

Civil, building and specialty construction company, Tutor Perini (NYSE:TPC) Guam-based subsidiary, Black Micro has been awarded a firm-fixed-price contract valued at $221.69M by the Naval Facilities ...

An F-22 lands at Tinian International Airport on March 2. Credit: U.S. Air Force AURORA, Colorado—The U.S. Air Force recently deployed F-22s to a tiny, bare base in the Pacific for the first in a ...

The Commonwealth Ports Authority is confident construction of the new West Tinian International Airport runway will be completed within the scheduled 18 months, as contractors begin major ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has commended the CNMI Ports Authority's continued effort to improve airport facilities in the Northern Marianas, following an on-site visit of the construction ...

Tinian island is seen here from the flight deck of a C-130H flying a humanitarian aid and disaster relief mission in support of Cope North 13, Feb. 6, 2013. Cope North is a multilateral aerial ...

Tinian is part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a US territory in the Pacific, some 6,000 kilometers (3,700 miles) west of Hawaii in the Pacific. Only about 3,000 people live on ...