The aerial tanker is likely to remain in the United States for long-term repairs—but the on-site patch-up to keep it ...
Despite its age, the Stratotanker remains the backbone of the US Air Force's aerial refueling fleet.
Tyler Simmons, an airman with the 121st Air Refueling Wing at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base in Columbus, died in a KC-135 refueling aircraft crash Thursday.
Twenty-six thousand feet in the air, Master Sgt. Christopher Mack was face-to-face with a half-million-pound C-17 Globemaster III, which was gulping 20,000 pounds of fuel through a metal tube above ...
The Department of Defense said Capt. Ariana G. Savino, 31, of Covington, Washington, was among the servicemembers who died March 12 when a KC-135 crashed in Iraq.