NORAD Fact Sheets

NORAD Tracks Santa

A Washington D.C., Air National Guard F-16 Fighting returns from a training mission April 3, 2012, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. The D.C. ANG provides air sovereignty forces to defend the nation's capital, and also provides fighter, airlift and support forces capable of local, national and global employment.

Cheyenne Mountain Complex

A North American Aerospace Defense Command F-22 Raptor flies next to a Russian Tu-95 bomber during an intercept in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone June 16, 2020.

NORAD Exercises

North American Aerospace Defense Command will conduct air defense exercise Falcon Virgo Wednesday morning, Mar. 13, in the National Capitol Region with flights scheduled between midnight and 2:30 a.m. EDT