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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:57-1474 USAF
    Construction Number:17545
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 57-1474 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Technical Training Center, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    28 August 1958

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

    19 September 1958

    First flight.

    23 October 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-1474.

    By November 1975

    Transferred to 19th Bomb Wing, Robins AFB, GA.

    By September 1986

    Transferred to 509th Air Refuelling Squadron, 509th Bomb Wing, Pease AFB, NH.

    6 December 1991

    Converted to a KC-135R.
    New construction number, T0154, assigned to the airframe.

    By December 1994

    Transferred to 92nd Air Refuelling Wing, Fairchild AFB, WA.

    By May 1997

    Transferred to 351st Air Refuelling Squadron, 100th Air Refuelling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.
    Operated with markings: Reluctant Dragon

    To Technical Training Center, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX.
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    28 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Shepperd AFB, TX, USA
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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     John Bennett
    Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
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