Supply chain problems have delayed an effort to redesign the KC-46 tanker’s refueling boom, keeping the plane years away from being able to gas up the entire Air Force inventory. Engineers are ...

U.S. Transportation Command can now task the Boeing KC-46 tanker to refuel C-17 cargo planes, B-52 bombers and other KC-46s using its refueling boom.

A KC-46 tanker lost its boom during an F-22 refueling mission, adding to safety concerns around the aircraft's troubled boom system.

The KC-46A is equipped with a refueling boom driven by a fly-by-wire control system and can handle fuel offload rates required for large aircraft.

The KC-46s belongs to the 931st Air Refueling Wing at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, the same unit of the tanker involved in the incident between a KC-46 and an F-16 off the coast of the ...

KC-46 boom-vision upgrade slips to summer 2027 The fresh delay will make RVS 2.0 more than three years late.

The GAO didn’t specifically name the subcontractors weighting the program down. Spirit AeroSystems Inc. in Wichita has work on the 767-based tanker, though not on the boom.

Aerial refueling is a critical capability that keeps fighter jets and other planes flying for extended periods. The new Pegasus tanker will take over this job.

Now with the 3-D cameras and headsets employed on the KC-46, who knows what kind of qualifications will be needed. Maybe the fine craft of being a boom operator will finally be the video game ...

A U.S. Air Force KC-46A Pegasus aircraft carrying congressional staff members had to make an emergency landing after a technical snag left its refueling boom dangling beneath the fuselage.

Boeing announced in September 2018 that its KC-46 Pegasus aerial tanker (seen here with its refueling boom extended) won the second of two necessary airworthiness certificates from the Federal ...

The EMD aircraft, a modified 767 without a functioning boom, has been flying since the end of last year, but the first flight of a "full-up" KC-46 has been delayed several times.