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buildsjets 7 hours ago

The KC-10 went out of service last year. None are operating.

loeg 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but DC-10 based tankers for wildfire fighting were still flying until the recent grounding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-10_Air_Tanker

(Blancolirio points out that the DC-10 tanker is what they modernized to relatively recently -- before that they were flying even more dangerous WW2 airframes for firefighting.)

mandevil 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Damnit, I knew that! Just forgot it in the moment.