The Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa received its first KC-135 aircraft converted with the newest digital avionics cockpit instruments known as the Block 45 upgrade on August 25, 2017.
The instrument panel replacement modification replaces most of the remaining analog gages in the cockpit of the aging KC-135 with new instrumentation, coupled with a modern LCD display. Avionics such as the radio altimeter, auto-pilot, digital flight director and other components associated with these systems in the aircraft were all replaced.
The 185th’s first modernized KC-135 spent just 60 days at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma before pilots from the Iowa Air Guard retrieved the aircraft in order to bring it home to Sioux City.
Over the course of the next 12 months the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City is scheduled to have five of its KC-135’s equipped with the new cockpit avionics.
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