The Air Force Academy on Sept. 3 announced its newest gyrfalcon mascot has been named Nova after a vote by the Cadet Wing. (Air Force Academy) The Air Force Academy’s newest mascot now has a name.

The Air Force Academy Falcons lost their longest-living mascot last week. In the end of an era, as the Academy put it, Aurora the Gyrfalcon died Oct. 3 after serving 23 years as the school’s ...

The Air Force Academy’s falcon mascot should fully recover from injuries that she suffered from a prank by West Point cadets before Saturday’s Army-Air Force football game, said Air Force Lt.

Aurora was the Academy's longest serving live mascot," officials stated ... annual rivalry game that pits West Point against the Air Force Academy. Fortunately, she recovered from her injuries ...

The Army’s military academy issued an apology Sunday for an apparent prank in which a live Air Force mascot falcon was abducted and injured ahead of the weekend’s Army-Air Force football game ...

Submitted photo FALCONER — Falconer Central School senior Aidan McCleery will be trading one falcon mascot for another as he sets off on his journey to the Air Force academy after graduating from ...