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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:KC-135R Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:61-0304 USAF
    Construction Number:18211
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 61-0304 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    28 May 1962

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

    15 June 1962

    First flight.

    28 June 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0304.

    Transferred to 351 ARS, 100 ARW, RAF Mildenhall.

    Markings Applied: D,
    Red white and blue tail-fin band.

    17 April 1981


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: At Mildenhall in the UK

    27 November 1984

    Converted to a KC-135R.

    By June 1986

    Transferred to 384th Air Refuelling Wing, McConnell AFB, KS.

    November 2003

    Transferred to 54th Air Refuelling Squadron, 97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, OK.

    4 February 2013


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall

    4 November 2013

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    4 November 2013

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 23.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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