USAF Tankers at Brisbane Airport 27/02/2021

Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker 58-0093 takes off from Brisbane (YBBN) on a mission to refuel a USAF B-52 over the Coral Sea.

On 25th February 2021 a quartet of venerable USAF Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft arrived into Brisbane International Airport (YBBN). The aircraft left their home base of Kadena AFB, Okinawa and were staging at Brisbane Airport to perform a tanking mission over the Coral Sea. On Saturday 27/02 I took the opportunity to get some photos of them leaving for this mission.