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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:EC-135A Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:61-0262 USAF
    Construction Number:18169
    Compressed ID:Boeing EC-135A sn 61-0262 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, South Dakota

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    Dates

    Event

    13 July 1961

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.
    Roll out

    2 August 1961

    First flight.

    23 January 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0262.

    After 26 January 1962

    Installation of airborne command post suite.

    4 April 1962

    Transferred to 34th Air Refueling Squadron, 4321st Strategic Wing, Offutt AFB, NE.

    9 October 1963

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

    2 September 1964

    Transferred to 913th Air Refueling Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Wing, Barksdale AFB, LA.

    1 January 1965

    Redesignated as EC-135A.

    1 January 1965

    Transferred to 99th Air Refueling Squadron, 499th Air Refueling Wing, Westover AFB, MA.

    23 November 1965

    Transferred to 7210th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 7513th Tactical Group, RAF Mildenhall, England.

    23 January 1967

    Transferred to 28th Air Refueling Squadron, 28th Bombardment Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    26 July 1967

    Received Airborne Launch Control Center modifications.

    31 July 1968

    Transferred to 906th Air Refueling Squadron, 5th Bomb Wing, Minot AFB, ND.

    13 January 1969

    Transferred to 28th Air Refueling Squadron, 28th Bombardment Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    1 March 1970

    Transferred to 4th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    March 1984

    Aircraft re-skinned.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    1992

    Loaned to 28 BW/MU, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    30 March 1992

    To South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, Rapid City, SD.
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    1 August 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    31 July 2016


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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    Print Sources
     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Plane Logger
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    FRANCOIS OLIVIER
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