Air Force Times

Air Force Times

Air Force Times cover 19 July 2010
Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Tabloid
Owner(s)	Sightline Media Group
Publisher	Michael Reinstein
Founded	1947
Headquarters	6883 Commercial Drive, Springfield, Virginia 22159  United States
Circulation	53,057 (June 2013)
ISSN	0002-2403
Website	airforcetimes.com

Air Force Times is a newspaper published 26 times per year serving active, reserve and retired United States Air Force and Air National Guard personnel and their families, providing news, information and analysis as well as community and lifestyle features, educational supplements, and resource guides.

Air Force Times is published by the Sightline Media Group, which is a part of Regent Companies, and was formerly owned by TEGNA, Inc. Prior to becoming Sightline Media Group, it was formerly known as Gannett Government Media from 1997 - 2015 until it was spun-off into one of the digital properties of TEGNA. Prior to being owned by Gannett in 1997, it was known as the Army Times Publishing Company when it was published by Times Journal Company. In March 2016, TEGNA sold Sightline Media Group to Regent Companies, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm controlled by investor Michael Reinstein.

Military Times newspapers are the most purchased publications in Exchange shops and defense commissaries, beating such national bestsellers as People and Time.

Air Force Times traces its roots back to the 1940s, when Army Times, founded by Mel Ryder, had reporters covering the U.S. Army Air Corps and U.S. Army Air Forces. With the creation of the U.S. Air Force in 1947 came the birth of Air Force Times as a separate newspaper. Mr. Ryder began his newspaper career on the staff of Stars and Stripes selling and delivering papers to the troops on the front lines during World War I. In 1921 he joined Willard Kiplinger in forming the newsletter service, the Kiplinger Agency. He sold his interest in the agency in 1933 and began publishing Happy Days, a paper written for members of the Civilian Conservation Corps. His first order was for 400 copies and the first advertiser was GEICO. Next, Ryder started the publication of Army Times. The first issue was published in 1940 and the company was incorporated the same year.

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