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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:59-1456 USAF
    Construction Number:17944
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 59-1456 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    13 January 1960

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

    3 February 1960

    First flight.

    16 February 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1456.

    7 July 1983

    Converted to a KC-135E.

    By September 1992

    Transferred to 126th Air Refuelling Squadron (ANG)/128th Air Refuelling Wing, General Mitchell ANG Base, WI.

    By 1996

    Transferred to 141st Air Refuelling Squadron/108th Air Refuelling Wing (ANG), McGuire AFB, NJ.
    Operated with markings: Spirit of Camden County

    14 September 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135E Stratotanker, callsign Jersey 9, of 141st Air Refuelling Squadron New Jersey Air National Guard on display at the 1996 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    14 September 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Another view of the New Jersey Air National Guard KC-135E Stratotanker named Spirit of Camden County on display at the 1996 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135E Stratotanker, callsign Jersey 07, of 141st Air Refuelling Squadron/108th Air Refuelling Wing at McGuire AFB on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135E Stratotanker, callsign Jersey 07, of 141st Air Refuelling Squadron/108th Air Refuelling Wing at McGuire AFB on display at the 1997 International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford.

    19 July 1997


    Photographer: C Peter Russell-Smith
    Notes: Photographed at RAF Fairford.

    26 February 2008

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0184.
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    Credits
     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
    Peter Nicholson
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