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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:61-0280 USAF
    Construction Number:18187
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 61-0280 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:452nd Air Mobility Wing, March AFB, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-135A.

    Circa 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0280.

    November 1986


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX on transient ramp

    1987

    Transferred to 340th Air Refuelling Wing, Altus AFB, OK.

    By May 1987

    Transferred to 380th Air Refuelling Squadron/380th Bomb Wing, Plattsburgh AFB, NY.

    June 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March AFB, CA as a KC-135E

    Converted to a KC-135R.

    January 2009

    Transferred to 452nd Air Mobility Wing, March AFB, CA.

    16 October 2009


    Photographer: KORIES Didier
    Notes: taken at Edwards AFB for the airshow
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