KC-46 Deliveries Paused Due To Boom Issue, USAF Says

Brian Everstine May 23, 2024

A KC-46 takes off on a delivery flight from Boeing Field in Seattle in December 2023.

Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force has not taken delivery of KC-46 tankers from Boeing in more than two months as a new issue on the aircraft’s boom was discovered during inspections. Boeing to date has delivered 82 KC-46s to the Air Force, and four more to the Japan Air Self Defense Force. The service says in a...
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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