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PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — The Pease National Guard Base is ready for a new era.
Seacoastonline.com reports current and retired New Hampshire Air National Guard men and women said farewell Sunday to the last KC-135 tanker plane on duty at the New Hampshire base.
The Stratotanker, an Eisenhower administration-era aircraft that’s the oldest plane on duty in all of the U.S. Air Force, was bound for redeployment at Goldwater Air National Guard Base in Phoenix.
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US Air Force receives new KC-46 aircraft, an event decades in the making
The Air Force is set to get its first long-delayed Boeing KC-46 Pegasus air-refueling tankers at McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas.
The new KC-46A Pegasus air refueling tanker is arriving later this year.
Among the last plane's missions was its part in Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing of North Vietnam over a three-year period.
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TRANSCOM working to defer KC-135 retirement as delays with KC-46 continue
Some squadrons might have a capability gap as KC-135s retire and KC-46s come online — and lawmakers are concerned.
“Bittersweet” was the word of the day as several hundred active duty Guard and Air Force members, retirees, family members, and others attended the ceremony.
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