Welcome to Vance Air Force Base and the 71st Student Squadron (STUS)! Team Vance trains more than 370 Air Force and allied student pilots each year. As the fourth busiest airfield in the Air Force, Vance operates approximately 200 T-1 Jayhawk, T-6 Texan II, and T-38 Talon aircraft flying over 50,000 sorties and 74,000 hours every year. In the STUS, we provide the administrative command and control required to accomplish the wing’s pilot training mission.