Boeing C-135 Stratotanker cn 17242 / 9
Frame last update: 07-Apr-2022
Registration: 55-3126Operator: Withdrawn from use
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Type: Withdrawn
Status: Scrapped
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| All Operators of This Frame | ||||||
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| Reg | Date | Model | Operator | Notes | Seen | Photo |
| 55-3126 | xx-xx-1957 | KC-135A Stratotanker | USAF - United States Air Force | f/f 17.5.1957; set Buenos Aires to Washington speed record of 11hr 5min 13.11.1957 piloted by Gen Curtis LeMay; became Airborne Command Post 1959 & used for 'Night Watch' missions 1060-1964; used as *Speckled Trout* flying avionics testbed (named after Faye Trout, the civilian program monitor at the Lab) mid-1960s to 1974; | ||
| 55-3126 | xx-xx-1975 | KC-135A Stratotanker | Withdrawn from use | wfu MASDC 31.7.1975 ex AFSC/ASD (PCN CA004); br/up for spares 04.5.1979 & cockpit sent to the Dept of Energy, Mercury, NV, as a simulator; | ||
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| Other Users Sightings of Frame | |||||
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| Date | Reg | Operator | Location | User | |
| 08-10-1977 | 55-3126 | Withdrawn from use | Warthog1 | ||