Boeing Formalizes First KC-46 Deliveries To Air Force

Credit: Steve Trimble/Aviation Week
An eight-year effort to hand over a new large tanker aircraft to the U.S. Air Force came to a fittingly complicated conclusion during a Jan. 24 delivery ceremony for the first unfinished Boeing KC-46. After holding out for two years, the Air Force finally agreed to accept KC-46 deliveries from...

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