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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:WC-135W Constant Phoenix
    Last Military Serial:61-2667 USAF
    Construction Number:18343
    Compressed ID:Boeing WC-135W sn 61-2667 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Det 2,

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    Dates

    Event

    22 February 1962

    Constructed as a C-135B-BN by Boeing at Renton, WA, USA.
    Factory roll out date

    22 March 1962

    First flight.

    20 April 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-2667.

    20 April 1962

    Transferred to Military Air Transport Service.

    22 October 1965

    Converted to a WC-135B.

    From March 1977 to December 1984

    Redesignated as TC-135B.

    By July 1985

    Transferred to 55th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, McClellan AFB, CA.

    By May 1989

    Transferred to 10th 10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.

    26 May 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: WC-135B Stratotanker of 10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron in Constant Phoenix configuration on display at the 1990 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    Transferred to 45th Reconnaissance Squadron, Misawa Air Base, Japan.
    Used as a Silk Purse crew trainer.

    Converted to a WC-135W.

    Redesignated as NC-135W.
    L3 Comm installed to support flight testing for RC-135 fleet.

    Transferred to Det 2,.

    By 2007

    Redesignated as WC-135W.

    2007

    Was test flying the Northrop-Grumman LN-120G stellar-inertia tracking navigation system.

    March 2011

    Used for Japanese mission after Fukuskima nuclear plant accident.
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     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Internet Sources
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    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
    FRANCOIS OLIVIER
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