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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:KC-135E Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:57-1455 USAF
    Construction Number:17526
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 57-1455 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pease AFB (formerly), Portsmouth, New Hampshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.
    This was the 135th KC-135 built.

    14 August 1958

    First flight.

    29 August 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-1455.

    From By March 1982 to By November 2003

    Transferred to 151st ARS, 134th ARW, Tennessee ANG, McGhee Tyson Airport, TN.

    March 1982


    Photographer: MNANG Museum
    Notes: Refueling MNANG RF-4Cs

    10 September 1982

    Converted to a KC-135E.

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

    Loaned to NH Ang (pease Angb), 157 ARW/CCE, Pease ANGB, NH.

    Placed on display with Pease AFB (formerly), Portsmouth, NH.
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    Painted in NH ANG markings.

    8 May 2010


    Photographer: United States Air Force
    Notes: Original Caption: A Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker serial number 57-1455 from the 157th Air Refueling Wing is towed down a makeshift road by an MD-2 tow tractor at Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire on May 8, 2010. This particular aircraft was previously assigned to the 134th ARW, Tennessee ANG in Knoxville, TN and is the one hundredth thirty-five KC-135 built by Boeing. After a concrete pad is constructed for the aircraft, the static display will be dedicated in a ribbon cutting ceremony at Pease (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt Curtis J. Lenz)
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