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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:62-3506 USAF
    Construction Number:18489
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 62-3506 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:133 Air Refuelling Squadron (ANG), Pease Air National Guard Base, Portsmouth, NH

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    Dates

    Event

    3 October 1962

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

    27 October 1962

    First flight.

    Circa 30 October 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 62-3506 and operated with these markings: 23506.

    26 January 1987

    Converted to a KC-135R.

    By 2003

    Transferred to 133 Air Refuelling Squadron (ANG), Pease Air National Guard Base, Portsmouth, NH.

    11 September 2004

    Attended RAF Leuchars Battle of Britain Airshow with Radio callsign Pack 99.

    18 April 2019


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At Mildenhall base in the UK
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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