KC-135 and E-J AWACS

KC-135 SUPPORT
The KC-135 Stratotanker is an aerial refueling tanker aircraft. It has been in service since 1957, and was based upon the commercial Boeing B707. Four turbofans, mounted under 35-degree swept wings, power the KC-135 to takeoffs at gross weights up to 322,500 pounds. Nearly all internal fuel (209,000 pounds - 31,000 US gallons) can be pumped through the tanker's flying boom, the KC-135's primary fuel transfer method, or special shuttlecock-shaped drogue, attached to and trailing behind the flying boom.

E-3 SUPPORT
The Boeing E-3 Sentry is a military airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft that provides all-weather surveillance, command, control and communications. The E-3 Sentry is also a modified Boeing 707-320B advanced commercial airframe. The rotating Pulse Doppler radar dome of 30 feet in diameter is help 14 feet above the fuselage by two struts, and can moniter aircraft up to 400 miles away.

MHD supplies Spares and manages Repair and Overhaul for the major airframe rotables including the undercarriage, instruments, pumps, hydraulics and valves.


  • Crew: 3: pilot, copilot, boom operator. require the addition of a navigator
  • Length: 136 ft 3 in (41.53 m)
  • Wingspan: 130 ft 10 in (39.88 m)
  • Height: 41 ft 8 in (12.70 m)
  • Wing area: 2,433 ft2 (226 m2)
  • Empty weight: 98,466 lb (44,663 kg)
  • Loaded weight: 297,000 lb (135,000 kg)
  • Max takeoff weight: 322,500 lb (146,000 kg)
  • Powerplant: 4× (R/T) CFM International CFM-56 (F108-CF-100) turbofan engines, 21,634 lbf (96 kN) each
  • Powerplant: 4× (E) Pratt & Whitney TF-33-PW-102 turbofan engines, 18,000 lbf (80 kN) each