Serial | 018734 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 09.9.1964 | |||||||||||||||
Model | KC-135R Stratotanker | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | re-skin 05.1979; re-eng to KC-135R 21.6.1990; w/o 26.9.2006 at Bishkek-Manas AP, Kyrgyzstan, after landing and holding short of taxiway; ATC cleared Altyn Air Tu-154M (EX-85718) for take-off and its' right wing struck the tankers No.1 engine & severed part of the left wing causing a major fire (with 92 ARW); the Tu-154 lost approx 6ft of its' right wing but managed to get airborne and return to the airport for a safe emergency landing. | |||||||||||||||
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