{"id":170730,"date":"2025-01-28T18:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/kc-extenders-still-fly-us-military-after-usaf-retirement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T08:00:15","slug":"kc-10-extenders-still-fly-for-the-us-military-even-after-the-air-force-retired-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=170730","title":{"rendered":"KC-10 Extenders Still Fly For The US Military Even After The Air Force Retired Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> KC-10 Extender aerial tankers were one of the most famous applications of the legendary             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"258753\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas DC-10<\/a><\/span>. It provided the Air Mobility Command with advanced tanker cargo capabilities\u2014with greater refueling capabilities than its more numerous KC-135 counterpart. But         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033192\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-air-force-retires-final-kc-10-extender-tanker-43-years-service\/\" >the Air Force retired the last of them in September 2024<\/a><\/span>, sending them to storage in Arizona&#8217;s famous Davis-Monthan Air Force Base boneyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an epilogue, Omega Air continues to refuel US aircraft with ex-Japan Airlines and Dutch KC-10 even after the Air Force retired them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,3773,240,7559,423,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10","category-north-america","category-tanker","category-united-states","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170731,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170730\/revisions\/170731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}