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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:58-0115 USAF
    Construction Number:17860
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 58-0115 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    18 September 1959

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

    6 October 1959

    First flight.

    23 October 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 58-0115.

    28 October 1959

    USAF fly away from factory.

    Circa 1977

    Transferred to 150th Air Refueling Squadron, 170th Air Refueling Group (ANG), Offutt AFB, NE.

    By December 1981

    Transferred to 150th Air Refueling Squadron, 108th Air Refueling Wing (ANG), McGuire AFB, NJ.
    Operated with markings: NEW JERSEY

    6 May 1983

    Converted to a KC-135E.
    Returned this date after conversion and re-skinning.

    2 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Will Rogers Airport, Oklahoma City, OK

    7 July 2009

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0240.

    7 July 2009

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 7.
    View the Location Dossier

    13 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Internet Sources
     Plane Logger
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Robert Nichols
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