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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:KC-135R Stratotanker
    Last Military Serial:61-0312 USAF
    Construction Number:18219
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135R sn 61-0312 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    7 July 1962

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

    6 August 1962

    First flight.

    9 August 1962

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0312.

    14 August 1962

    USAF factory fly away.

    27 June 1985

    Converted to a KC-135R.

    By September 1986

    Transferred to 384th Air Refuelling Wing McConnell AFB, KS.

    By May 1997

    Transferred to 351st Air Refuelling Squadron/100th Air Refuelling Wing, RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk.
    Operated with markings: Holy Terror

    24 May 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: European Tanker Task Force KC-135 Stratotanker named Holy Terror of the 100th Air Refuelling Wing with special markings for the USAF 50th anniversary on display at the 1997 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    24 May 1997


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: KC-135 Stratotanker named Holy Terror of the 100th Air Refuelling Wing with special markings for the USAF 50th anniversary on display at the 1997 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    Transferred to 54th Squadron/97th Air Mobility Wing, Altus AFB, OK.

    21 February 2013

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 7794.
    First KC-135R to be retired.
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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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