Once-in-a-century change happening at a California base.

The KC-46As will replace the base’s KC-135 Stratotankers, an airplane first developed in the 1950s. The new tankers, which ...

The KC-46A is a larger aircraft from start to finish, being bigger, carrying more fuel, carrying it further, and carrying out more missions.

The Boeing KC-46A Pegasus air tanker refuelled a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II for the first time over California. The tanker connected to the fighter aircraft with its refuelling boom on 22 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTSMOUTH — A safety investigation is underway after a KC-46A tanker from Pease Air National Guard Base experienced a malfunction ...

TAMPA, Fla. — MacDill Air Force Base will become home to the new KC-46A Pegasus aircraft. The Department of Defense chose MacDill AFB as the sixth main operating base for the new fueling tankers, U.S.

A KC-46 Pegasus from the 97th Air Mobility Wing, assigned to the 56th Air Refueling Squadron, Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma, refuels an F-16 Fighting Falcon on December 7, 2020. The KC-46 has been ...

Despite receiving orders for dozens more KC-46A Pegasus in-flight refuelling tankers in recent months, Boeing only delivered two of the aircraft in the first quarter of 2021. The first quarter was the ...

Boeing expects to deliver the first KC-46A to the U.S. Air Force in October. The aircraft has completed more than 3,300 flight testing hours and has cost the OEM billions to develop and certify. Here, ...

After celebrating more than 60 years of KC-135 depot maintenance at Tinker Air Force Base the time has come to transition to the newest of the Air Force's aerial refuelers. In July 2016, the United ...