A three-year, $43.6-million assignment for Boeing Defense covers operational support and sustainment for the KC-46 tanker and heavy transport ... based on the twin-engine, wide-body 767 platform.

Based on the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner, the Extender features a visually-distinct triple-engine layout. Developed from the Advanced Tanker Cargo ... As the Boeing 767-based KC-46 Pegasus ...

While a Boeing 767 derivative too ... different engines, cockpit, wings and boom: in other words, it’s almost a completely different tanker. One of the main differences that makes it stand ...

The Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill approved Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives includes language allowing Boeing an extra five years to produce 767 freighters for ...

It also supplies a tanker variant for militaries. FedEx and UPS are the only customers for the 767-300 freighter ... manufacturing and engine-related problems that have delayed delivery of ...

Jet engine maker CFM International said on Wednesday ... including the vast majority of Boeing 767 freighters, as well as the KC-767 tanker operated by Italy and Japan. If unapproved CF6 bushings ...

Source: Boeing Powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW4062 engines, the tanker is about 165 feet long with a 156-foot wingspan, making it a little longer than the Boeing 767-200ER commercial plane.

JetZero claims this means the Z-5 requires smaller engines, and that the ... considerably shorter than the Boeing 767—which the Air Force’s latest tanker, the KC-46A Pegasus, is based on ...

And so far this year, Boeing has not delivered a single 767 freighter ... risk to the KC-46 tanker fleet. Air Force spokesperson Alli Stormer said in an email that engine fuel filters on ...

And so far this year, Boeing has not delivered a single 767 freighter ... risk to the KC-46 tanker fleet. Air Force spokesperson Alli Stormer said in an email that engine fuel filters on the ...

A supplier’s manufacturing quality mistake has prompted Boeing to delay deliveries of 767 ... KC-46 tanker fleet. Advertising Air Force spokesperson Alli Stormer said in an email that engine ...