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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, parks at the ramp area at NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida. The SCA touched down at 5:05 p.m. EDT to prepare for shuttle Endeavour’s ferry flight to the Los Angeles International Airport on Sept. 17. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-4960

An Egyptian man stands in front of a C-141 Starlifter aircraft while waiting for other security agents to check new arrivals in at West Cairo during exercise Bright Star '80

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Crewmen attach a Cochran Loader to the cargo door of a KC-10 Extender aircraft

Crewmen off-load seats from a KC-10 Extender aircraft onto a Cochran Loader

A KC-10 Extender aircraft used to transport personnel during Exercise CORAL SEA'85

Interior view of a KC-10 Extender aircraft as cargo is positioned on a Cochran Loader

Crewmen off-load seats from a KC-10 Extender aircraft onto a Cochran Loader

Personnel of the 8th Mobile Aerial Port Squadron prepare to unload cargo from a KC-10 Extender aircraft during Exercise COBRA GOLD'87

KC-10 Extender pilots assigned to the 514th Aerial

Cargo is secured aboard a KC-10A Extender aircraft during a loading demonstration

Vehicles are secured aboard a KC-10A Extender aircraft during a loading demonstration

Personnel from the 5th and 435th Aerial Port Squadrons off load a KC-10 Extender aircraft during Operation Coronet Canvas

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Subject Operation/Series: CORONET CANVAS

Base: Raf Whittering

Country: England / Great Britain (ENG)

Scene Camera Operator: MSGT Don Sutherland

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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30/05/1981
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label_outline Explore Aerial Port Squadrons, Kc 10 Extender Aircraft, Extender Aircraft

An Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft refuels a C-141B Starlifter aircraft (as seen from the KC-10) during the return flight from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to Christchurch, New Zealand. The C-141 has just completed an airdrop during Operation Deep Freeze

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft pulls away from a KC-10 Extender aircraft after an aerial refueling mission over the skies of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom on Nov. 18, 2004. (USAF PHOTO by TECH. SGT. Erik Gudmundson) (Released)

A-7B Corsair II aircraft in the hangar bay of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS CARL VINSON (CVN 70). The aircraft are assigned to Light Attack Squadrons 203, 204, and 205 (VA-203, 204, 205)

Aircraft and maintenance personnel from the 39th and 40th Airlift Squadrons, Dyess AFB, TX, prepare to participate in the operation.(Exact date unknown)

Airmen assist LTC Bob Crowder, from the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, put on his high-pressure suit. LTC Crowder will fly an SR-71 Blackbird aircraft which will be refueled by a KC-10 Extender aircraft during testing

A US Air Force (USAF) B-2 Spirit stealth bomber taxis onto the flightline at Anderson Air Force Base (AFB), Guam (GU), in support of exercise Coronet Bugle 49. The B-2 is deployed to Anderson from Whiteman AFB, Missouri (MO)

The boom operator aboard a KC-10A Extender aircraft

A four ship formation of U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle aircraft assigned to both the 492nd and the 494th Fighter Squadrons, 48th Fighter Wing, at Royal Air Force Lakenheath, United Kingdom, perform a Missing Man formation fly over the village of Koverska, Czech Republic, on Sept. 11, 2004. The formation is part of the 60th Anniversary of the Air Battle over the Ore Mountains Celebration, held to honor both the German and American Airmen killed over the skies of Kovarska, Czech Republic on September 11, 1944. (U.S. Air Force PHOTO by AIRMAN Christopher Walkenhorst) (Released)

A British Royal Air Force member decontaminates an F-C Phantom II aircraft during chemical warfare training, part of Exercise Coronet Cactus

Vice Adm. John K. Ready, commander, Navy Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, greets CMDR. Larry H. Schmit, commanding officer of Fighter Squadron 33 (VF-33), upon his squadron's return to the station with other squadrons of Carrier Air Wing 1 (CVW-1). The wing was deployed in the Persian Gulf area aboard the aircraft carrier USS AMERICA (CV-66) during Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm

A view of two F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft taxiing out. The aircraft, from the 388th Tactical Fighting Wing, are carrying AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. The aircraft are involved in the Strike Command Tactical Bombing Competition between the United States and Royal Air Forces

A group of A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 442nd Fighter

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personnel aerial port squadrons aerial port squadrons load extender aircraft extender aircraft operation coronet canvas kc 10 extender raf whittering high resolution operation coronet canvas coronet canvas kc 10 extender aircraft msgt don sutherland great britain us national archives united kingdom england