Originally Posted by
fdx727pilot
Oddly enough, if you look across the runway from the McConnell AFB ramp, you will see.....(wait for it).... Boeing- Wichita! Or their successor, anyway.
But not if you are in Jabara!
Back in the late 1980's we took our KC135's into Wichita to get their new engines (JT3D's off of American's retired 707's) and wings re-skinned, and those same 1950's airframes are still flying today, most of them were older than I was, and are still flying.