Boeing EC-135 - Survivors

Survivors

  • EC-135A (AF Serial Number 61-0287) is on display at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska.
  • EC-135C (AF Serial Number 63-8049) is awaiting restoration at the Strategic Air and Space Museum in Ashland, Nebraska.
  • EC-135E (AF Serial Number 60-0374 - nicknamed "The Bird of Prey") is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. The aircraft is a former Apollo / Range Instrumentation Aircraft (A/RIA), and is displayed in the museum's outside Air Park. The aircraft was flown to the museum on November 3, 2000, by a flight crew from the Air Force Flight Test Center, and was delivered with full Prime Mission Electronic Equipment intact.
  • EC-135J (AF Serial Number 63-8057) is on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona.
  • EC-135L (AF Serial Number 61-0269 - nicknamed "Excaliber") is on display at the Grissom Air Museum, adjacent to Grissom Air Reserve Base near Peru, Indiana. The aircraft was last assigned to the 305th Air Refueling Wing and retired in 1992, at the end of the Cold War. The EC-135L was manufactured by Boeing Aircraft, Seattle, Washington. It was delivered to the Air Force on 8 December 1961. Assigned to Grissom AFB in 1970, the aircraft flew many missions during Operation Just Cause, Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm. For the latter, it performed radio relay operations leading to the elimination of two Iraqi aircraft, over 60 tank kills, and 27 Scud missile strikes.

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Famous quotes containing the word survivors:

    “I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.”
    —Lisel Mueller (b. 1924)

    “I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don’t know how to handle their parents. They see that their parents are traumatized: they scream and don’t react normally.”
    —Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)