SMSgt. Anthony Trenga, an airman with the Pennsylvania Air National Guard recently accrued 10,000 flying hours in a KC-135 refueler, a rare feat accomplished while deployed with his KC-135 crewmembers of the 340th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron in Southwest Asia.
Boeing received a $2.47 billion Air Force contract Nov. 25 for 15 more KC-46s, bringing to 183 the number of Pegasus tankers on contract to all customers, foreign and domestic. The new contract—for Lot 12 of the initially planned KC-46 buy—is to be completed by 2029.
