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Air Force urged to send new refueling planes to Grissom Air Reserve Base
• Associated Press • May 30, 2021
PERU, Ind. Indiana’s congressional delegation is pushing for the Air Force to select Grissom Air Reserve Base as a site for new aerial refueling and transport aircraft.
The northern Indiana base’s 434th Air Refueling Wing now flies KC-135 tankers. The Air Force announced in mid-May that Grissom was among six bases under consideration for assignment of the KC-46A Pegasus planes.
All nine U.S. House members from Indiana and its two senators joined in a letter to Air Force officials calling Grissom “an optimal facility” for the new planes. The KC-46A is replacing the KC-135 tankers, the last of which were built in 1965, according to the Air Force.