Business Insider spoke to a boom operator about their responsibilities aboard a KC-135 tanker at a base in England.

EVERETT — The Air Force’s first KC-46 aerial-refueling tanker will take shape in late June inside Boeing’s factory at Paine Field. That’s when Boeing will load into place the aircraft’s wing spar, the ...

House and Senate versions of the FY2026 NDAA offer competing visions for the Air Force's refueling fleet, threatening to disrupt a newly minted modernization strategy. On Oct. 8, 2025, the United ...

The chief executive of Boeing Co. said on Thursday it's possible that his company will be underbid by its European competitor for the U.S. Air Force tanker contract. Jim McNerney, who also is ...

PARIS — Shares of Airbus' parent company surged Monday after the French planemaker snatched a $40 billion U.S. Air Force contract from its American rival, the Boeing Co. Shares of European Aeronautic ...

Lockheed Martin and Airbus will build military tankers in Alabama and Georgia if the U.S. Air Force choses its aircraft over one proposed by rival Boeing, the companies announced Monday. Executives ...