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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:EC-135J
    Last Military Serial:63-8057 USAF
    Construction Number:18705
    Compressed ID:Boeing EC-135J sn 63-8057 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    3 December 1964

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

    16 February 1965

    First flight.

    25 February 1965

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-8057.

    4 March 1965

    Transferred to 22nd AREFS, March AFB, CA.

    19 October 1965

    Transferred to 34th AFRES, Offutt AFB, NE.

    From December 1965 to June 1966

    Converted to an EC-135C.
    Night Watch III.

    Circa July 1966

    Transferred to 1000th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Andrews AFB, MD.

    21 May 1967

    Redesignated as EC-135J.

    October 1975

    Transferred to 9th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, 15th Air Base Wing, Hickam AFB, Honolulu, HI.
    Blue Eagle?

    15 June 1987


    Photographer: Dan Stijovich
    Notes: On the takeoff roll at March AFB

    1988

    Terrance Soward comments (18 December 2022): Confirmed it was a part of 3 EC-135J assigned for the purpose of the Blue Eagle JCS CINCPAC Teams mission. I was a member of this Team back in 1988.

    31 March 1992

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA014.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    20 April 1993

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    Circa 30 June 1993

    Placed on display with Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    Officially transferred to the museum on this date.
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    Displayed with vertical stabilizer of EP-135P 55-3129.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    25 November 2005


    Photographer: John Meneely

    By 9 September 2011

    Markings Applied: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE, 38057

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    11 March 2018


    Photographer: Duncan Monk
    Notes: Looking a little worse for wear.
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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
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
    Peter Nicholson
    Terrance Soward
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