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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:KC-135A-BN Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:57-2591 USAF
    Construction Number:17727
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135A-BN sn 57-2591 USAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    21 November 1958

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

    13 December 1958

    First flight.

    23 December 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-2591.

    30 December 1958

    USAF factory fly away.

    Circa 1959

    Transferred to 5th Bombardment Wing, Minot AFB, ND.

    By September 1976

    Transferred to 68th Bombardment Wing, Seymour-Johnson AFB, NC.

    27 September 1976


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135A Stratotanker of 68th Bomb Wing at Seymour-Johnson AFB as seen at RAF Mildenhall in late Summer 1976

    Transferred to 46th Air Refueling Squadron, K. I. Sawyer AFB, MI.

    Transferred to 305th Air Refueling Wing, McGuire AFB, NJ.

    19 April 1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number C060.

    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Area 05, Row 04, AMARC, Tucson, AZ

    11 October 2018

    To unknown owner.
    Departed AMARC, unknown destination. By 1997 was scheduled for a foreign countrys air force.
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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
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Reinhard Jost
    Peter Nicholson
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