{"id":321394,"date":"2025-11-23T06:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/10-oldest-aircraft-types-usaf\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:00:15","slug":"10-oldest-aircraft-types-in-the-us-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321394","title":{"rendered":"10 Oldest Aircraft Types In The US Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040287\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/oldest-us-military-aircraft-still-flying\/\" >United States Air Force operates a number of old aircraft types<\/a><\/span>. That said, it is important to keep in mind that there is a difference between old aircraft types and old airframes. For example, the tanker workhorse, the KC-135 Stratotanker, has some of its very first airframes in service that are now 68 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force&#8217;s oldest aircraft are typically in specialized, transport, recon, bomber, or tanker roles.<\/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":[396,1970,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-oldest-aircraft","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321394","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=321394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321395,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321394\/revisions\/321395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}