Milestone Refueling

Posted 30 March 2011

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Photo by Darin Russell

A KC-135 tanker crew from the 916th Air Refueling Wing at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina became the first in Air Force Reserve Command and Air Mobility Command to refuel the F-35 Lightning II during a mission on 30 March 2011. The crew, which was using a borrowed aircraft from McConnell AFB, Kansas, was on rotational assignment to the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards AFB, California, when Air Mobility Command headquarters authorized line tanker crews to refuel the new fighter. Interestingly, the 916th Air Refueling Wing was also the first operational tanker wing to refuel the F-22 several years ago.

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