The automatic load alleviation and independent disconnect systems greatly enhance safety and facilitate air refueling. The KC-10 can be air-refueled by a KC-135 or another KC-10A to increase its ...

Travis Air Force Base held a final farewell for the KC-10 Extender this week. The KC-10 assigned to the 60th Air Mobility Wing and 349th Air Mobility Wing will be decommissioned during various ...

"This aircraft, like all the aircraft in our KC-10 ... and air cover overhead." For nearly four decades, KC-10s have helped secure global reach for America, providing in-flight refueling to ...

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The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many ...

It is intended to replace the oldest of the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker ... This aircraft is equipped with a modernized KC-10 refueling boom integrated with proven fly-by-wire control ...

The service's last KC-10 Extender, which was at Travis Air Force ... Andrew Doenitz, commander of the 305th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron, said in a release on the deployment.

Sep 8, 2024 Sep 8, 2024 Updated Dec 15, 2024 NEWINGTON — The New Hampshire Air National Guard became the first to receive the new KC-46A Pegasus refueling tankers in 2019, and now history is ...