Tag Archives: kc-10

Vehicle I-D: KDC-10 Koninklijke Luchtmacht

Photo by Staff Sergeant Dana Cable.

In September 2019, A Royal Netherlands Air Force KDC-10 paid a visit to Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, for Exercise Mobility Guardian.

Fairchild AFB, Washington, 2019. Photo by First Lieutenant Jessica Cicchetto.

2019: Texas airborne fueler company buys Dutch KDC-10s

Photos by Maartje Roos.

Photos from NATO’s Trident Juncture 2018, in Norway.

NATO video, taxi-takeoff, heading to Trident Juncture 2018 in Norway:

Photo by Chris Okula.

They flew all the way to Edwards Air Force Base, in California, to refuel one of their own F-35s!   According to the press info, at the end of March 2016, the Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht) was used to prove the viability of refueling F-35s with KC-10s.

Halloween 2020:  HOW TO MUMMIFY YOUR KC-10, OR, LAST FLIGHT OF 86-0036

Operation CoViD-19:  PROJECT AIR BRIDGE, 747S, MD-11S, BREAKING AIRLIFT RECORDS!

Wildfires 2019:  DC-10, IDAHO’S 911

Bare Metal:  NASA’S MD-11 EXPERIMENTAL

How to mummify your KC-10, or, Last flight of 86-0036

Photo by Staff Sergeant Sean Evans.

The day before Halloween, the first of three retired KC-10 Extenders began its mummification by AMARG (Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group) at Davis-Monthan Air
Force Base, Arizona.

Photo by Master Sergeant Joseph Vigil.

On 13JUL2020, a KC-10 (tail #86-0036) based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, became the first KC-10 in the U.S. Air Force inventory to be officially retired.  Congress approved the retirement of three KC-10s in anticipation of eventual replacement of 59 KC-10s by the new KC-46A Pegasus.

Photo by Staff Sergeant Sean Evans.

Tail #86-0036 takes off on its last flight, Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst from to the graveyard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 13JUL2020.

Photo by Airman First Class Sean Hetz.

Final flight video by Master Sergeant Joseph Vigil (edited by me):

Time lapse video by Staff Sergeant Giovanni Sims, KC-10 mummification on 30OCT2020:

 

From 2017:  908th EARS KC-10 refueling Bengal F/A-18D Hornet and 355th FW A-10C Thunderbolt-2

Mini Air Tankers take off in North Carolina

Plot of ground to be used as a new display of model tanker aircraft of the 916th Air Refueling Wing, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, 06AUG2019.

Installing a KC-135 Stratotanker, 18SEP2019.

KC-10 Extender.

 25SEP2019, Colonel Craig McPike, 916th Air Refueling Wing commander, and unit historian Stephen K. Beckett, like their new model display of the KC-46 Pegasus, KC-10 and KC-135.

D-DAY KC-135, ‘HUNDRED PROOF’ & OTHER NOSE ARTS

MODEL EC-130J GETS SPECIAL HANDLING BY NATIONAL GUARD!

Vehicle I-D: Tiger Striped F/A-18D & A-10C get fuel from KC-10

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Michael Battles, 27SEP2017.

USMC’s VMFA-224 Bengals now providing air-to-ground support, along with USAF’s 355th FW A-10Cs, as part of Operation Inherent Resolve.

Video of 908th EARS KC-10 refueling Bengal F/A-18D Hornet and 355th FW A-10C Thunderbolt-2 in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, kit-bashers note the tiger stripe camo on the F/A-18D:

U.S. WILDFIRES 2016: DC-10 POCATELLO AIRPORT

WORLD WAR 3: OBAMA DEPLOYS A-10 THUNDERBOLT TO TURKEY! SIGNS ‘SECRET’ DEAL WITH RUSSIA!

PROOF THE A-10 THUNDERBOLT WAS TO REMAIN A USAF MAINSTAY UNTIL 2040: TAXPAYERS SPENT MORE THAN $2-BILLION ON UPGRADES!

2012 POCATELLO AIRPORT: IDAHO NATIONAL GUARD A-10C THUNDERBOLT-2 (before Obama took them all away)

USMC & USAF conducts Gunfighter school in Idaho

31 July 2016 (17:05 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714

Idaho’s Mountain Home AFB conducts Gunfighter training four times per year.

OBAMA DISAPPEARS THE LAST OF IDAHO’S APACHES!

IDAHO HOME OF COLD WAR ERA “TOTAL FORCE” WARFARE TRAINING!