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The Boeing RC-135 is a family of large reconnaissance aircraft built by Boeing and modified by a number of companies, including General Dynamics, Lockheed, LTV, E-Systems, L3Harris Technologies, and used by the United States Air Force and Royal Air Force to support theater and national level intelligence consumers with near real-time on-scene collection, analysis and dissemination capabilities.
The aircraft was totally destroyed. No one was seriously injured. On 5 June 1969 an RC-135E crashed in the Bering Sea minutes after leaving Shemya. Nineteen crewmembers died. On 15 March 1981, an RC-135 Cobra Ball aircraft, serial 61-2664 departed Eielson for Shemya with 24 people on board. While attempting to land on Shemya they encountered a ...
In 1977 the 170th received Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers and became the 150th Air Refueling Squadron. On 1 October 1993, [ 2 ] the 170th Air Refueling Group was combined with the 108th Air Refueling Wing at McGuire when the New Jersey Air National Guard implemented the Air Force's Objective Wing organization, which called for all units on a base ...
Aerial reconnaissance: Motto(s) We Observe the Unknown (post 1967) Decorations: Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award: Insignia; 24th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron emblem: Patch with 24th Reconnaissance Squadron Cobra Ball Logo: 24th Bombardment Squadron emblem (approved 24 November 1944) [1
It also became a Strategic Air Command refueling site for B-52 Stratofortress bombers and KC-135 tankers as part of Operation Chrome Dome. SAC would have the tankers rotated to Shemya where they were re-fueled prior to taking off and refueling the loitering B-52s over Alaska which would loiter outside the Soviet Union to provide rapid first ...
Dec. 12—Four additional KC-135 Stratotankers, the lynchpins of the U.S. military's aerial refueling operations, have been assigned to Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks, and with them around ...
The final B-52 left the wing in June 1975, but the wing continued some KC-135 Air refueling and RC-135 reconnaissance operations until inactivated in September 1975. On 8 January 2011, the 307th Bomb Wing was reactivated at Barksdale AFB , LA as the sole B-52H bomb wing in Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC), assigned to AFRC's 10th Air Force .
Sep. 8—The New Hampshire Air National Guard became the first to receive the new KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers in 2019, and now history is being made again with the first operational ...