New Delivery Delay Adds To Boeing KC-46 Woes

Brian Everstine May 28, 2024
Three KC-46As on runway in fog

Three KC-46s wait on the flightline at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey. The base has received the only KC-46s delivered so far this year.

Credit: Mark C. Olsen/New Jersey National Guard
Boeing started the first half of 2024 with a slowdown in KC-46 deliveries due to a new fault in the aircraft’s boom, setting back the company for the second year in a row. The U.S. Air Force tells Aviation Week that it had not accepted a new tanker from Boeing since March 1, after an inspection...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, he covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times.

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