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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:NKC-135A Airboure Laser Lab
    Last Military Serial:55-3134 USN
    Construction Number:17250
    Compressed ID:Boeing NKC-135A sn 55-3134 USN cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    25 June 1957

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.
    Factory roll out

    1 August 1957

    First flight.

    28 August 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-3134.

    Converted to a JKC-135A.

    Converted to a NKC-135A.

    1962

    Participated in Starfish nuclear tests, 1962.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 55-3134.

    Transferred to US Navy Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group.

    After 1975

    King Crow I - designated airborne electronic threat simulator for USN, from 1975. Used to train Navy airborne and shipborne crews to operate in a realistic electronic warfare environment.

    29 August 1981


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: NKC-135A of the US Navy Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group [FEWSG] active at RAF Lossiemouth during Exercise Ocean Venture in August 1981.

    20 February 1996

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 6G0002.

    1996

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
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    October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At AMARC, AZ as an NKC-35A
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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