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Tag: KC-46A Pegasus

Air Force Selects Tennessee Guard Base as Preferred Location to Host Next-gen Pegasus
November 20, 2025 — PENTAGON – The U.S. Air Force announced McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base near Knoxville, Tennessee, as the preferred location to host the KC-46A Pegasus Main Operating Base 7 as part of the... MORE

U.S. Air Force KC-46A aircraft assigned to the 157th Air Refueling Wing, New Hampshire National Guard, are lined up in formation on the runway at Pease Air National Guard Base

Pease Airmen first to execute coronets with KC-46A Pegasus
September 15, 2020 — KADENA AIR BASE, Japan – Pease achieved another historic first in military aerial refueling. A year after the 157th Air Refueling Wing became the first Air National Guard unit in the country to field... MORE

From left, Capt. Erik Earle, Capt. Chris Schimmel, Maj. Matt Valentino, Master Sgt. Brett Peterson, Capt. Jordan Gauvin, Chief Master Sgt. Michael George and Maj. Leon Rice pose in front of a KC-46A Pegasus on Sept. 8, 2020, at Kadena Air Base, Japan. The Pease Airmen executed the first official transoceanic coronet ever accomplished with a Pegaus refueler, which began Sept. 9 and involved 16 aerial refuelings of five F/A-18 jets.

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