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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:C-135K
    Last Military Serial:59-1518 USAF
    Construction Number:18006
    Last Civil Registration:N96
    Compressed ID:Boeing C-135K sn 59-1518 USAF cn 18...
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a KC-135A-BN.

    19 October 1960

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-1518.

    1 April 1968

    To Federal Aviation Administration, Washington, DC with new c/r N96.

    23 February 1976

    Civil registration, N96, cancelled.

    Converted to an EC-135K.

    Transferred to 8th Tactical Deployment Control Squadron.

    1996

    Converted to a C-135K.

    Transferred to 15th Air Base Wing, 65th Airlift Squadron, Hickham AFB, Honolulu, HI.

    10 March 2003

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number CA0131.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    MASDC III, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona by Bonny, Swann and Fryer
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