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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:KC-135A-BN Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:56-3595 USAF
    Construction Number:17344
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135A-BN sn 56-3595 USAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Barksdale Global Power Museum, Barksdale AFB (north west side), Shreveport, Louisiana

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    Dates

    Event

    17 October 1957

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

    9 December 1957

    First flight.

    31 December 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-3595.

    17 January 1958

    USAF factory fly away.

    By October 1987

    Transferred to 22nd Air Refueling Squadron, 22nd Air Refueling Wing, March AFB, CA.

    1 April 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to 2 BW/MU, Barksdale AFB, LA.

    Circa September 2009

    Placed on display with Eighth Air Force Museum, Barksdale AFB (north west side), Shreveport, LA.
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    Placed on display with Barksdale Global Power Museum, Barksdale AFB (north west side), Shreveport, LA.
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    26 August 2012


    Photographer: Keith Parkinson
    Notes: At Barksdale AFB Museum
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
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