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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:EC-135L
    Last Military Serial:61-0269 USAF
    Construction Number:18176
    Compressed ID:Boeing EC-135L sn 61-0269 USAF cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru - Kokomo, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

    5 September 1961

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.
    Roll out date

    26 September 1961

    First flight.

    8 December 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 61-0269.

    18 September 1967

    To 906th Air Refueling Squadron, 450th Bombardment Wing, Minot AFB, ND.

    From 30 October 1967 to 21 December 1967

    Converted to an EC-135L.
    Converted at Lockheed.

    December 1967

    Transferred to 305th Air Refueling Squadron, 305th Bombardment Wing, Bunker Hill AFB, IN.

    19 November 1968

    Transferred to 28th Air Refueling Squadron, 28th Bombardment Wing, Ellsworth AFB, SD.

    9 January 1969

    Transferred to 906th Air Refueling Squadron, 5th Bombardment Wing, Minot AFB, ND.

    20 January 1970

    Transferred to 305th Air Refueling Squadron, 305th Air Refueling Wing, Grissom AFB, IN.

    Transferred to 3rd Airborne Command and Control Squadron, Grissom AFB, IN.

    1975

    Transferred to 70th Air Refueling Squadron, 305th Air Refueling Wing, Grissom AFB, IN.

    June 1988

    Aircraft re-skinned.

    From December 1989 to January 1990

    Flew missions in Operation Just Cause.

    From Circa August 1990 to February 1991

    During operation Desert Storm this aircraft supported missions credited with destruction of two MiG-29s, 27 mobile launchers, and more than 100 tanks. Mission marks are on the aircraft.

    29 June 1992

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    29 June 1992

    Loaned to Grissom Air Museum, Peru, IN.

    29 June 1992

    Placed on display with Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru-Kokomo, IN.
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    17 July 1996


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Grissom Air Museum at Grissom AFB, Indiana.

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    5 December 2006


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker by Robert S. Hopkins III
    Internet Sources
     Airbus, Boeing, Convair and Douglas Production List
    Airliners.Net
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Plane Logger
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Peter Nicholson
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