First flight Boeing KC-46 - or is it?

evhest · Post by **evhest** » 28 Dec 2014, 19:17

Boeing KC-46 makes curtain call

The curtains were about to close on 2014, but in end Boeing did on Sunday 28 December what it commited to earlier this year. From the Boeing Everett facility at Paine Field near Seattle, the first KC-46A ‘Pegasus’ took the skies at 9.30 am local time for a flight to nearby Boeing Field. The flight will no doubt be heralded as a milestone for the US Air Force’s troubled KC-X program. But in reality, the KC-46A has yet to fly.

The full story is at Airheadsfly.com.

wamovements · Post by **wamovements** » 28 Dec 2014, 19:41

N461FT will become 11-46001 when delivered.
It is one of two B767-2Cs that will be used in the test programm, the other two (11-46002 & 46004) will be full KC-46As.
For now, no air-to-air refuelling capability is foreseen for this frame.

pilotman6012 · Post by **pilotman6012** » 28 Dec 2014, 20:05

Still airborne as BOEING 1:

http://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N461FT

TF-104G · Post by **TF-104G** » 28 Dec 2014, 22:55

wamovements wrote:N461FT will become 11-46001 when delivered.
It is one of two B767-2Cs that will be used in the test programm, the other two (11-46002 & 46004) will be full KC-46As.

oh, a five digit number after the FY - so the KC-46 go to the US Army

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