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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:GKC-135E Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:56-3607 USAF
    Construction Number:17356
    Compressed ID:Boeing GKC-135E sn 56-3607 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Technical Training Center, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    10 December 1957

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

    20 January 1958

    First flight.

    26 February 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-3607.

    4 March 1958

    USAF factory fly away.

    8 October 1982

    Converted to a KC-135E.

    By 2001

    Transferred to 151st Air Refueling Squadron, 134th Air Refueling Wing, McGhee Tyson ANGB, TN.

    Circa March 2001


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: 151st ARS, 134th ARW, Tennessee ANG.

    By November 2003

    To Technical Training Center, Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX.
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    By November 2003

    Redesignated as GKC-135E.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Credits
     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
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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