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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:EC-135H Silk Purse
    Last Military Serial:61-0285 USAF
    Construction Number:18192
    Compressed ID:Boeing EC-135H sn 61-0285 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    21 December 1961

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

    18 January 1962

    First flight.

    12 March 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0285.


    Photographer: Unknown

    Converted to an EC-135A.

    From By 1972 to May 1987

    Transferred to 10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.
    Operated with markings: 10th ACCS

    15 January 1977


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: EC-135H Silk Purse Command Post of 10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron resident at RAF Mildenhall as seen in January 1977.

    23 August 1980


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Silk Purse Command Post version of the Stratotanker, an EC-135H of 10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, was on display at the 1980 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    6 April 1982

    Converted to an EC-135H.

    25 May 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete

    15 July 1985


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: Departing IAT Fairford.

    By 1991

    Transferred to 6th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Langley AFB, VA.

    9 March 1992

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0012.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
    Ken Videan
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