The last U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender was decommissioned after 44 years of service during a final farewell ceremony Thursday at Travis Air Force Base in California. Service members, veterans, ...

Crews of the U.S. Air Force’s KC-10 Extender fleet attended the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford to show off their aircraft to British crowds one final time before the type’s upcoming ...

The last operational KC-10, tail number 79-1948, departs Travis AFB, California, for storage at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. (USAF) The US Air Force (USAF) retired its last Boeing KC-10 Extender air-to ...

The U.S. Air Force expects to field a fix for the stiff aerial refueling boom (ARB) on the Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker late in fiscal 2027. “The stiff boom deficiency […] ...

Aircraft in general, but military ones in particular, are built to last. That's why the skies of today's world are filled with machines first imagined decades ago, and also why we don't get to see a ...

For those with dreams of owning their own fleet of aerial refuellers, the opportunity of a lifetime is about to close. The Pentagon is selling 10 of its retired Boeing KC-10 Extender tankers via ...

The U.S. Air Force retired the first tanker in the KC-10 fleet on July 13 by flying the 32-year-old aircraft to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan AFB, ...

Lockheed Martin‘s (NYSE: LMT) commercial engine solutions business, formerly Kelly Aviation Center, has secured a potential nine-year, $1 billion contract to provide engine overhaul and logistics ...

On Apr. 10, 2025, a C-17 from Joint Base Lewis-McChord became the first in the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command to take fuel from a commercially contracted KDC-10B. Omega Air Refueling, based in ...