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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:59-1459 USAF
    Construction Number:17947
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 59-1459 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:909th Air Refuelling Squadron/18th Wing, Kadena AB, Japan

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    Dates

    Event

    26 January 1960

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

    11 February 1960

    First flight.

    26 February 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1459.


    Photographer: Unknown

    7 January 1986

    Converted to a KC-135R.

    By 1987

    Transferred to 319th Bombardment Wing, Grand Forks AFB, ND.

    January 1990

    Transferred to 28th Bombardment Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    By May 1993

    Transferred to 351st Air Refuelling Squadron/100th Air Refuelling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.

    By April 1995

    Transferred to 55th Air Refuelling Squadron/97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, OK.

    By March 2011

    Transferred to 22nd Air Refuelling Wing, McConnell AFB, KS.

    By January 2015

    Transferred to 909th Air Refuelling Squadron/18th Wing, Kadena AB, Japan.
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Lawson
    Peter Nicholson
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