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KC-135T. KC-135Q re-engined with CFM56 engines, 54 modified. C-135F. A new-built variant for France as dual-role tanker/cargo and troop carrier aircraft. [45] 12 were built for the French Air Force with the addition of a drogue adapter on the refueling boom. Given Boeing model numbers 717-164 and 717-165. [51] C-135FR
Forty-five base-model aircraft were built as C-135A or C-135B transports with the tanking equipment excluded; three more aircraft originally ordered as KC-135A were factory converted to C-135A. The C-135/KC-135 type was also known internally at Boeing as the Model 717 , [ 8 ] a name later assigned to a completely different aircraft .
The squadron was inactivated in 2009 pursuant to 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission action that eliminated the 940th Air Refueling Wing's KC-135 flying mission and redesignated it as the 940th Wing as an associate unit to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing in support of RQ-4 Global Hawk remotely piloted (e.g., unmanned) aircraft operations ...
It was the first USAF unit to operate the new KC-10A along with KC-135A and KC-135E aircraft. From 1982, the wing provided strategic air refueling and airlift in support of worldwide U.S. Air Force and other Department of Defense operations and training exercises .
150th Air Refueling Squadron KC-135 Stratotanker In 1977, upon receipt of Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers , the unit became the 150th Air Refueling Squadron . It was the first air refueling unit in the United States to launch tankers to establish the U.S.-Saudi Arabia "Air Bridge" during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
KC-135R / Associate squadron to Air Force Reserve Command's 507th Air Refueling Wing. As of 2015, was slated to redesignate as a special operation squadron and return to Will Rogers Air National Guard Base flying the MC-12W aircraft under claimancy of AFSOC ; transition in flux as of 2016.
The 134th ARW transitioned to the KC-135E Stratotanker and following the recommendation of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Commission action, transitioned to and currently operates the KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft in worldwide support of the U. S. Air Force. The unit provides aerial refueling to all types of U.S. Air Force bomber ...
Data from Encyclopedia of world military aircraft Volume 1 General characteristics Crew: 3: pilot, copilot, boom operator (4th crew member is a navigator for aircraft without the PACER CRAG update) Capacity: mission crew members Length: 136 ft 3 in (41.53 m) Wingspan: 130 ft 10 in (39.88 m) Height: 41 ft 8 in (12.70 m) Wing area: 2,433 sq ft (226.0 m 2) Aspect ratio: 7.04 Airfoil: root: BAC ...