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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:WC-135B Constant Phoenix
    Last Military Serial:61-2674 USAF
    Construction Number:18350
    Compressed ID:Boeing WC-135B sn 61-2674 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    29 March 1962

    Constructed as a C-135B-BN by Boeing at Renton, WA, USA.
    Factory roll out date

    11 May 1962

    First flight.

    18 May 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-2674.

    1965

    Converted to a WC-135B.

    12 August 1982


    Photographer: Andrew Shaw
    Notes: Seen at the 1982 RAF Alconbury Open House

    July 1992

    Converted to an OC-135B.
    Was the first OC-135B Open Skies conversion.

    July 1994


    Photographer: Robert Greby

    27 May 1995


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: OC-135B Open Skies aircraft, callsign Cobra 10, of 55th Wing based at Offutt AFB 55th Wing on display at the 1995 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    21 August 1997

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0115.

    After 1999

    Due for hushkits and a two-man cockpit conversion as an OC-135W.

    Transferred to 45th RS.

    Converted to an OC-135W.

    Converted to a WC-135B.

    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With Open Skies titles in the crowd at Area 05, Row 3 at AMARC, Tucson, AZ

    2005

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0115.
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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