Wichita students tour Team McConnell

Image Gallery

Keyword: Category: Tag: Sort By:

Eleven students from the Classical School of Wichita toured Team McConnell Jan. 30, 2018. While here, the students learned about the missions of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, 931st Air Refueling Wing and 184th Intelligence Wing. The students also viewed a KC-135 Stratotanker Periodic Inspection performed by the 931st Maintenance Group at Hangar 10. PEs are one of the most thorough and time-consuming inspections conducted on an aircraft. It is conducted every1,800 flight hours.

Wichita students tour Team McConnell

Eleven students from the Classical School of Wichita toured Team McConnell Jan. 30, 2018. While here, the students learned about the missions of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing, 931st Air Refueling Wing and 184th Intelligence Wing. The students also viewed a KC-135 Stratotanker Periodic Inspection performed by the 931st Maintenance Group at Hangar 10. PEs are one of the most thorough and time-consuming inspections conducted on an aircraft. It is conducted every1,800 flight hours. (U.S. Air Force photos by Tech. Sgt. Abigail Klein)

Related Imagery

Senator Jerry Moran, right, observed Maj Jordan Kemp, 18th Air Refueling Squadron, Aircrew Training Detachment Director of Operations, during a flight on a KC-46A Pegasus June 10, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. Kemp showed Moran and Congressman Ron Estes the aircraft’s aerial refueling functionality during a local sortie with another KC-46, carrying Secretary of the Air Force, Barbara Barrett. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Marc A. Garcia)

A KC-46A was refueled by another KC-46A on June 10, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. The Aircrafts were carrying Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett, Senator Jerry Moran, and Congressman Ron Estes as Team McConnell Aircrews demonstrated the new aircraft’s aerial refueling functionality. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Marc A. Garcia)

Senator Jerry Moran, left, was shown the KC-46A boom capabilities by Chief Master Sgt. James Guldjord, 18th Air Refueling Squadron Superintendent, during a local sortie on June 10, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Marc A. Garcia)

A KC-135 Stratotanker, tail number #58-0124 , lands after flying for the last time as part of routine training during the 931st Air Refueling Wing Unit Training Assembly June 6, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan.

Capt. Derrick Lopez, Lt. Col. Jonathan Flores, Maj. Chris Foote, 2nd Lt. Ben Stone, 18th Air Refueling Squadron pilots, and Master Sgt. Clay Dotson, 905th Air Refeuling Squadron boom operator, flew that
last KC-135 Stratotanker flight to take place during a 931st Air Refueling Wing Unit Training Assembly June 6, 2020, at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan.

In an undated photo, a B-1 Bomber flying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom is refueled by a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 22nd Air Refueling Wing and flown by an 18th Air Refueling Squadron crew. The photo was taken by then-Senior Master Sgt. John Wallman, a boom operator belonging to the 18 ARS. The 931st began supporting OIF in March. 2003.

In an undated photo, the original 931st Air Refueling Group KC-135 Stratotanker navigators pose for a photo at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. The 931st Air Refueling Wing, then a Group, stood up at McConnell Jan 1., 1995. Members have traveled all over the world and been a major force in defending the United States.

Col. Vik Malling, the first commander of the 931st Air Refueling Group, at McConnell poses on the flightline for a local paper announcing the establishment of the 931 ARG at McConnell in an undated photo at McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. Then a Group, the 931st was the Air Force's first associate Reserve unit for the KC-135 Stratotanker.

Tech. Sgt. Abigail Klein
180130-F-FC636-2437.JPG

DOWNLOAD PHOTO
(0.95 MB)

Tags
KC-135

Back to Main Gallery