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3 KC-135's At TPA 1/31

tpa36r From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 210 posts, RR: 0
Posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 2963 times:

There has been 3 KC-135's at Jet Center the last couple days. 1 departed about 17:30 as Jazzy 83. Anyone have any ideas why they were there? Why not at MacDill?

[Edited 2012-01-31 19:52:36]

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HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1
Reply 1, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 2845 times:

And while I'm reading your post, one just took off from Daytona Beach DAB (I can watch traffic from my place now), which is unusual for Daytona. Granted yours is odder still considering MacDills proximity, but just sayin...

Here Here for Severe Clear!

tpa36r From United States of America, joined Jul 2007, 210 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 2711 times:

I'm surprised that over 250 people has viewed this topic and no one has a clue what these planes were doing there.

Quoting HaveBlue (Reply 1):

Thats just as odd. The only thing I can think of for my instance is that it was election night and they were somehow involved with that. Who knows...

moose135 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2009 posts, RR: 12
Reply 3, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 19 hours ago) and read 2655 times:

Quoting tpa36r (Reply 2):
I'm surprised that over 250 people has viewed this topic and no one has a clue what these planes were doing there.

They're tankers - they are probably flying refueling missions, what else do you think they are doing?

KC-135 - Passing gas and taking names!

par13del From Bahamas, joined Dec 2005, 5902 posts, RR: 8
Reply 4, posted (1 year 3 months 3 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2653 times:

Quoting moose135 (Reply 3):
They're tankers - they are probably flying refueling missions,

They are practising picking up the slack for the airlift fleet that is being reduced, since the new cargo / tankers are not yet in the fleet, the KC135 will have to commence operating into more civil airports to pick up and drop off military cargo.
Just saying

n92r03 From United States of America, joined Jan 2010, 251 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (1 year 3 months 20 hours ago) and read 1918 times:

There was some work being done to the runways at MacDill so the 135's were operating out of TPA. There were also two G-V's, one all white and the other with the lite blue AF1 look. They even brought in temp storage and what looks like a temp lounge over by the south end of the GA area.

NASCARAirforce From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3084 posts, RR: 5
Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 months 4 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1857 times:

About the time of this posting I was seeing a bunch of KC-135s flying into MCO also, back around late Jan - early Feb. One of them was Ohio Air Guard though, wasn't a MacDill based one.

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