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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:C-135R Stratolifter
    Last Military Serial:62-3504 USAF
    Construction Number:18487
    Compressed ID:Boeing C-135R sn 62-3504 USAF cn 18...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-135A.

    Circa 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 62-3504.

    By January 1984

    Transferred to 905th Air Refuelling Squadron/319th Bomb Wing, Grand Forks AFB, ND.
    Noted at RAF Fairford on TDY 1984-01-06.

    Converted to a C-135R.

    28 May 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135R Stratotanker of 19th Air Refuelling Wing based at Robins AFB on display at the 1988 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    May 1988

    Transferred to 19th Air Refuelling Wing, Robins AFB, GA.

    By May 1988

    Blue and yellow checked tail band.

    May 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At March AFB, CA

    By January 2009

    Transferred to 191st Air Refuelling Squadron/151st Air Refuelling Wing Utah ANG, Salt Lake City, UT.

    Transferred to 151 ARS, 134 ARW, TnANG, McGhee Tyson ANGB, TN.

    4 November 2013

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 7812.

    4 November 2013

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 23.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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    Peter Nicholson
    Tom Tessier
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