As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force ...

Throughout aviation history, plane crashes associated with Wichita have been rare. In fact, Wednesday’s crash of a American ...

Refueling a plane midair sounds tricky and crazy if you don’t have hours of training and knowledge on how it works. Staff Sgt ...

Photos showing some of the aftermath of the Jan. 16, 1965 crash of a KC-135 Stratotanker shortly after it took off from McConnell Air Force Base (Courtesy USAF 22nd Air Refueling Wing History ...

The United States Air Force is working with JetZero to develop a new tanker with an efficient blended wing design.

Six members from the 6th Air Refueling Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., finally receive the Distinguished Flying Cross ...

MacDill is slated to receive the new KC-46 refueling tanker by 2029 to replace the aging KC-135 tankers that are currently based there. The Boeing aircraft is larger and far more modern than the ...

The U.S. Air Force's 18th Wing, which is the host aviation unit for Kadena Air Base, published photos on Thursday that showed at least nine KC-135 aerial refueling and airlift aircraft ...

Sixty years ago, a Boeing KC-135 refueling tanker carrying more than 30,000 gallons of fuel crashed shortly after takeoff from McConnell Air Force Base into a neighborhood at 20th and Piatt in ...