Specifications
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Primary Function: | Aerial refueling
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Contractor: | Boeing Military Airplanes
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Power Plant: | Four CFM-International F108-CF-100 turbofans
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Thrust: | 22,224 pounds (10,000.8 kilograms) each engine
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Length: | 136 feet, 3 inches (40.8 meters)
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Height: | 38 feet, 4 inches (11.5 meters)
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Wingspan: | 130 feet, 10 inches (39.2 meters)
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Speed: | Maximum speed at 30,000 feet (9,100 meters) 610 mph (Mach 0.93)
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Ceiling: | 50,000 feet (15,152 meters)
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Weight: | 119,231 pounds (53,654 kilograms) empty
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Maximum Takeoff Weight: | 322,500 pounds (145,125 kilograms)
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Range: | 11,192 miles (9,732 nautical miles) with 120,000 pounds (54,000 kilograms) of transfer fuel.
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Crew: | Four or five; up to 80 passengers.
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Date Deployed: | August 1965.
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Unit Cost: | KC-135R, $53 million; KC-135E, $30.6 million; KC-135A, $26.1 million.
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Inventory: | Active force, 457; Reserve, 30; ANG, 158.
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