Boeing has revealed details about cracks that recently prompted it to halt deliveries of KC-46 military tankers, while ...

The Air Force may have to keep its aging KC-135 tankers flying beyond their planned 2050 retirement, depending on how many ...

58 total The Boeing-built KC-46 tanker is a military version of the 767 commercial aircraft. It is intended to replace the oldest of the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker fleet -- some of ...

The KC-46 was operating out of Travis AFB, California, where it returned to perform an emergency landing. The base later ...

Boeing has halted deliveries of its KC-46 tanker after structural cracks were found in new aircraft on delivery to the Air Force which is inspecting its entire fleet of 89 KC-46s, TWZ reported.

According to reports, the Air Force and Boeing were aware since 2018 that the KC-46 Pegasus could develop issues in the aileron hinges.

"Completing the testing necessary to expand the operational capabilities of the KC-46 is a critical step in modernizing the Air Force's aging tanker fleet. The 60th Air Mobility Wing at Travis has ...

A new U.S. Air Force analysis that recommends a systems-based approach to achieve survivable air refueling renders moot a next-gen stealthy tanker like ... as the Boeing KC-46 and KC-135.

Those bridge tankers were meant to serve as a stopgap between NGAS and the in-service Boeing KC-46 tanker, which the air force is currently procuring to replace the ageing Cold War-era Boeing KC ...