four KC-135s and more than 60 airmen have been killed in mishaps over the last 50 years. The last crash involving a KC-135 was in January 1999, when a Fairchild-based tanker with the 141st Air ...

Both times the mishap aircraft engaged the autopilot the oscillations grew worse.” Shouldn’t KC-135 pilots train for such predicaments in their simulators? They can’t. “Insidious onset of ...

A KC-46A Pegasus tanker has been involved in yet another refueling mishap, this time off the coast ... over more missions to lessen the load on KC-135’s units, it still has many issues.

A KC-135 Stratotanker damaged by Tropical Storm Maria in the Pacific last month will be out of commission until at least October, officials told Military.com. The storm, which rolled over Guam on ...

Local news outlets are reporting that a C -135 tanker (most probably a KC-135) aircraft disappeared from radar screens near Kyrgyz-Kazakh border owned by U.S. Manas Transit Center. According to ...

four KC-135s and more than 60 airmen have been killed in mishaps over the last 50 years. The last crash involving a Fairchild KC-135 was in January 1999, when a Fairchild-based tanker with the ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 185th Air ... Air Force crash recovery and safety teams responded to the mishap, according to the release. The airport’s main runway was ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Air Force announced Wednesday that a Sept. 26 mishap between a KC-135 tanker and a Kyrgyz passenger plane at Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan was mostly the ...

“Although no mishaps have resulted ... or lack a stress layer that makes them stronger. The Boeing-made KC-135 is a mid-air refueling aircraft that’s been in service since the late 1950s.

The most famous mishap occurred off the coast of Spain ... route [the B-52] refueled over the Almeria coast from [a KC-135].” Aerial refueling was very safe. At the time of the 1966 Chrome ...

“Although no mishaps have resulted ... may have been installed on the KC-135, which is flown at Fairchild, as well as RC-135 and WC-135 jets, the Air Force announced. Inspections typically ...