The U.S. Air Force has been actively conducting surveillance missions in the western Pacific Ocean, particularly over waters bordering China. It has deployed various reconnaissance aircraft to Kadena ...

I visited the Roland R. Wright National Guard Base ... Now, I don't think I could have picked a better aircraft," he said. "I’ve been flying the KC-135 since 2006, and I don't want to do ...

They belong to the service's family of RC-135 reconnaissance planes, a number of which are forward-deployed to an allied air base in the Pacific to watch adversaries including China and North Korea.

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said a People's Republic of China J-16 fighter pilot performed an "unnecessarily aggressive maneuver" while intercepting a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft. Video provided ...

One such aircraft has been hard at work since 1957 and isn't stopping anytime soon: The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker. It does exactly what the name implies. The aircraft is an airborne gas station ...

It was the end of an era on Wednesday at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The KC-135 refueling plane is being retired to make way for the new KC-46. Members of the New Jersey Air National Guard ...

The Boeing Company BA recently secured a modification contract worth $251.4 million for the production of fan duct transactional spares for KC-135 aerial refueling tanker aircraft. The award has ...