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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:57-1505 USAF
    Construction Number:17576
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 57-1505 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Genevieve, MO, for use in CAStLE (Center for Aircraft Structure Life Extension) program

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    Dates

    Event

    29 October 1958

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

    21 November 1958

    First flight.

    Circa 22 December 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-1505 and operated with these markings: 71505.

    26 December 1958

    USAF factory fly away.

    Circa 1975


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

    By May 1978

    To 132nd Air Refuelling Squadron (ANG), Bangor International Airport, ME.

    May 1978


    Photographer: Jerry Geer
    Notes: Photo taken at Des Moines ANGB, Iowa.

    21 March 1984

    Converted to a KC-135E.

    22 April 2008

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0205.

    26 October 2010

    Disassembled.

    After 2010

    To Genevieve, MO, for use in CAStLE (Center for Aircraft Structure Life Extension) program.
    Credits
     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
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     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
    Max Sabin
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