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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:59-1497 USAF
    Construction Number:17985
    Compressed ID:Boeing KC-135E sn 59-1497 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Dix, Browns Mills, New Jersey

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.
    400th KC-135 Built

    19 July 1960

    First flight.

    4 August 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1497.

    1960

    To 46th ARS, 4042D Strategic Wing, K. I. Sawyer AFB, MI.
    Markings added: County of Marquette

    1967


    Photographer: Dr. Glenn Thoreson
    Notes: Refueling F-4C 64-0822

    January 1980

    Re-Skinned.

    8 July 1983

    Converted to a KC-135E.

    Circa 1991

    Transferred to 141st Air Refueling Squadron, 108th Air Refueling Wing, New Jersey ANG, McGuire Air Force Base, NJ.

    July 1994


    Photographer: Robert Greby

    2007

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    Circa 2009

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
    View the Location Dossier

    Loaned to NJ Ang (mcguire AFB), 108 ARW/LGQ, McGuire AFB, NJ.

    May 2009

    To Fort Dix, Browns Mills, NJ.
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    Photographer: Luis Sanchez
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