Kansas Team Jumps Into KC-Y Tanker Bidding Contest

A Kansas Modification Center/National Institute of Aviation Research Werx team is working on its first 777-300ER passenger-to-freighter conversion in Wichita.
Credit: Wichita State University
A Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter (P2F) converted Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force. The team—Kansas Modification Center (KMC) and the National Institute of Aviation Research (NIAR) Werx—believes its 777-300ER P2F concept could support the Air Force...
Steve Trimble

Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.

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