{"id":14511,"date":"2024-11-22T20:36:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2024-11-22T20:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T02:36:13","slug":"boeing-awarded-15-additional-u-s-air-force-kc-46a-tankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14511","title":{"rendered":"Boeing awarded 15 additional U.S. Air Force KC-46A tankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Boeing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Everett, Washington, November 21, 2024\u2015<\/strong>Boeing will build 15 additional KC-46A Pegasus tankers under a Lot 11 contract award from the U.S. Air Force valued at $2.38 billion. In all, Boeing has 168 KC-46A multi-mission aerial refuelers on contract globally, providing advanced capability advantages for the joint force and allies.<\/p>\n<p>The KC-46A continues to demonstrate its unparalleled capabilities having flown more than 100,000 flight hours and offloaded more than 200 million pounds of fuel to receivers globally. In October, the Pegasus made its inaugural full-scale operational deployment after the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command approved the KC-46A for global combat operations in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In July, the Air Force awarded Boeing a contract to upgrade the mission readiness and performance of the KC-46A tanker. This builds on the 2023 Block 1 upgrade, further enhancing the tanker\u2019s advanced communications, data connectivity and situational awareness for aircraft survivability and operational advantage in contested environments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"First Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Delivery to Travis Air Force Base\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMqJfh95RQc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Boeing Everett, Washington, November 21, 2024\u2015Boeing will build 15 additional KC-46A Pegasus tankers under a Lot 11 contract award from the U.S. Air Force valued at $2.38 billion. In all, Boeing has 168 KC-46A multi-mission aerial refuelers on contract globally, providing advanced capability advantages for the joint force and allies. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14512,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}