![]() The good news with all of the reshuffling of airframes and squadrons is that the most important asset, the people, look to be accounted for. Take-off of Hobey 11 from Runway 36, McGuire AFB. The 170th ARS was created with reference and recognition to the former 170th Air Refueling Group which was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base in July 1965 and was consolidated in 1993 into the 108th Air Refueling Wing. In addition, the 108th Wing will stand up a new refueling squadron, that being the 170th Air Refueling Squadron. Instead, the 141st ARS will operate as a classic associate unit. The aircraft are owned by the 305th Air Mobility Wing at JB McGuire. The 141st Air Refueling Squadron which reports into the 108th Wing will not own the KC-46 aircraft. Firstly, is the fact that with this departure of the KC-135, along with the retirement of the last KC-10 Extender back in June of this year, it now leaves McGuire operating a single type airframe Air Force Tanker, the new Boeing KC-46A Pegasus.Ĭurrently JB McGuire has eighteen KC-46 tankers on base. Those very same Princeton Tiger markings were prominently displayed on KC-135s of the 141st ARS, while they served at Joint Base McGuire.Īs a result of the final KC-135R withdrawal from the 108th Wing at Joint Base McGuire there will be restructuring of the squadrons and airframe assets reporting into the 108th Wing. In his honor the Princeton University Tiger was adopted and incorporated as the 141st’s squadron insignia on their SPAD XIII aircraft. Shortly after the war Captain Hobey Baker tragically died in a flying accident of his SPAD XIII. ![]() Captain Hobey commanded the 141st Aero Squadron in France, shooting down its first enemy aircraft. In 1917 he left the United States for Europe to participate in World War I. Shortly after his graduation he joined the civilian aviation corps. Hobey was a prominent Princeton University collegiate athlete in both football and ice hockey, class of 1914. Note: the large orange striped Princeton University ‘P’ on the nose of the aircraft. ![]() For its departure the aircraft was given the callsign Hobey 11 in honor of Captain Hobey Baker. It was the first KC-135R to arrive at the 108th Wing in October of 2007, and it was the last to depart. It was delivered to the Air Force on Augand was reengined on May 8, 1989. Airframe 60-0366 started its flying service as a KC-135A.
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