Honor Flight Kern County’s first flight in 2012 had about 20 veterans, plus guardians and tour staff. This trip, which lifted off on Tuesday and returned to Bakersfield on Thursday, carried ...

Former Kern County Fire chief Bob Lechtreck, perhaps the last link to the Kern County Fire Department’s golden age, has died.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Honor Flight 51 returned Thursday night as Kern County residents gathered at the airport to welcome the veterans home. Honor Flight departed from Bakersfield on ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A Kern County group of veterans is set to take off to the nation’s capital on Tuesday. The group leaves for Washington D.C. on Oct. 1 from Meadows Field.

We've heard about Honor Flight, which takes veterans to Washington D.C. to visit war memorials, but not everyone can make that trip. Next month, the first-ever Kern County Honor Bus will take ...

The first Native American Kern County Honor Flight took off Wednesday. On this flight are four brothers who all served in the USAF, and they'll be carrying their sister's flag with them.

Oct. 14—About 100 Vietnam-era veterans were cheered, lauded and honored by hundreds of local friends, family and community supporters at a welcome home bash held Wednesday evening at North High ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Veterans onboard the 50th Kern County Honor Flight returned to Meadows Field Airport Thursday evening, after a whirlwind trip to our nation’s capitol. Patriotism was on ...

Steve Miles, with Honor Flight Kern County, joined 17 News at Noon to talk about the weekend event. Miles has $35,000 worth of items to raffle off and says if they don’t fundraise, they don’t fly.

Honor Flight Kern County has grown in the past decade. It also has evolved and become better organized since that first flight in 2012, and now flies planeloads of military veterans to the U.S. ...