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Meet the U.S. Air Forces 5 Longest Serving Aircraft Some are old enough to be considered senior citizens and yet show no signs of retiring anytime soon. Heres What You Need to Know: These aircraft have seen it all. The current mandatory retirement age of United States Air Force pilots is sixty, but there are now aircraft even older. Even as the U.S. military has no tanks of that age still in service, even in training capacities, there are U.S. Air Force aircraft that are old enough to be consid...

5 Longest Serving Military Aircraft in the U.S. Air Force The first C-130 aircraft was delivered to the United States Air Force in late 1956, and in total twenty-three hundred of all variants have been built to date —while the cargo transport is still in production. The current mandatory retirement age of United States Air Force pilots is sixty, but there are now aircraft even older. Even as the U.S. military has no tanks of that age still in service, even in training capacities, there are U....