“It’s going to be a real operational Air Force aircraft.” A stock picture of a US Air Force KC-135. USAF A US Air Force ...

As a space buff, I knew the KC-135 was used to train astronauts for weightlessness. But its main mission is USAF aircraft ...

Merlin, the leading developer of safe, autonomous flight technology for fixed-wing aircraft, today announced that its ...

Air Combat Command operates the OC-135 as an observation platform in compliance with the Open Skies Treaty. The KC-135RT aircraft continue to undergo life-cycle upgrades to expand their ...

At McConnell AFB in Wichita, Kansas, maintenance of KC-135 and KC-46 refueling aircraft is taken very seriously. Meet the two men who oversee it.

The aircraft is the last in a long line of converted tankers to serve with the Marine Corps, which used legacy KC-130s that ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas—U.S. Air Force leaders say the service’s mobility fleet of tankers and airlifters need to become more ...

Retirement signals show a shift from the KC-135 to newer aircraft, like the KC-46 Pegasus. The KC-135 legacy continues as the aircraft adapts to different roles beyond refueling missions ...

The US Air Force often finds military applications for civilian aircraft, from business jets to interplanetary spaceships.

On June 20, 1981, Theresa Claiborne was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force’s first Black female pilot, Claiborne would become the first Black woman to command and ...

The newly painted KC-135 features black-and-white invasion stripes, a hallmark of WWII aircraft involved in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, as well as nose art inspired by Kunkle’s own P-38 ...

USAF Expects KC-46 Deliveries To End In 2031, KC-135 Recap To Follow is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with ...