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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:56-3641 USAF
    Construction Number:17390
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 56-3641 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    24 March 1958

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

    17 April 1958

    First flight.

    8 May 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-3641 and operated with these markings: 63641.

    By 1975

    Transferred to 117th Air Refuelling Squadron Kansas Air National Guard, Forbes Field, Topeka, KS.

    Circa 1975


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At Mildenhall base in the UK

    19 June 1984

    Converted to a KC-135E.

    19 May 1989


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Reese AFB, TX.

    27 February 2008

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0189.
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
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