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Between 1993 and 2003, the amount of KC-135 depot maintenance work doubled, and the overhaul cost per aircraft tripled. [26] In 1996, it cost $8,400 per flight hour for the KC-135, and in 2002 this had grown to $11,000. The Air Force's 15-year estimates project further significant cost growth through fiscal year 2017.
On February 6, 1991, a USAF Boeing KC-135 military aircraft, operating as U.S. Air Force Flight WHALE 05, took off from Prince Abdullah Air Base, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while en route on a Gulf War refueling mission. the aircraft lost engines 1 and 2 while flying over the Saudi Arabian desert and to counteract the plane's descent, the pilots began to dump fuel from the aircraft.
On 16 January 1965, a U.S. Air Force Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in the central United States, in a neighborhood in north-eastern Wichita, Kansas, after taking off from McConnell Air Force Base. [1] This resulted in the deaths of all seven crew members on board the aircraft and an additional twenty-three people on the ground. [2] [3]
The flight of the fourth KC-135 was canceled after the accident. The two already in the air, Alpha and Bravo, continued to London and broke the world record. Alpha reached London in 5:27:42.8 and Bravo arrived in 5:29:37.4, shattering the previous record of 7 hours, 29 minutes. [4]
The lengthy flight required two mid-air refuelings over Spain. [1] At about 10:30 am on 17 January 1966, while flying at 31,000 feet (9,450 m), the bomber commenced its second aerial refueling with a KC-135 out of Morón Air Base in southern Spain. The B-52 pilot, Major Larry G. Messinger, later recalled, [6]
459th ARW KC-135Rs at Andrews AFB in 2004. USN P-8 being refueled by 459th ARW KC-135R. In 1989, a 459th C-141 was the first aircraft to fly troops and supplies into Howard Air Force Base, Panama during Operation Just Cause; the following year the wing was named the Air Force Reserve Outstanding Unit of the Year by the Air Force Association. In ...
The unit was reactivated at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom on 31 March 1992 as the 351st Air Refueling Squadron, operating the Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker. [1] The first KC-135R to arrive at Mildenhall for the 351st was 58-0100 on 19 May 1992 from Loring Air Force Base, Maine. [20] Nine KC-135Rs had arrived by September 1992. [21]
The extra tanks increase the KC-10's fuel capacity to 356,000 lb (161,478 kg), nearly doubling the KC-135's capacity. [7] The KC-10 has both a centerline refueling boom —unique in that it sports a control surface system at its aft end that differs from the V-tail design used on previous tankers—and a drogue-and-hose system on the starboard ...