The U.S. Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors is urging a limited early return to the Cadet Chapel while the building’s long-delayed restoration continues. In its semiannual report released October 15, 2026, the congressionally mandated oversight body recommends opening the chapel’s lower level to cadets by December 2027, before the projected completion of the overall project in 2028.
The recommendation is intended to restore access to worship space sooner without requiring the upper-level Protestant chapel to be finished first. It is not an announced decision by the Academy or the Air…