The air force C-32s Gatekeeper personnel transport planes, which the US Air Force keeps a secret, as well as the more visible C-32A executive transport airplanes, which frequently serve as Air Force Two and Air Force One, are losing their serial numbers from their tails and rear fuselages.
This is a component of a program that the service’s Air Mobility Command started that is apparently meant to increase operational security, although some experts and observers have questioned its usefulness.
Air Force Hub’s Visit To Japan Includes Rare C-32A Appearance
Plane spotters captured a C-32A landing at Yokota Air Base in Japan, a significant U.S. base, for what looks to be the first time ever anywhere. Last week, an Air Force hub visited that nation.
According to publicly accessible flight tracking information, the allegedly involved aircraft’s serial number was 98-0002.
2021 will see the arrival of an Air Force C-32A with serial number 98-0002 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska. On the tail, you can observe the customary C-32A serial number marker, which comprises the final five digits of the aircraft’s complete serial number.
Air Mobility Command (AMC) said in March that it would gradually remove serial numbers, tail codes, and recognizable, often vividly colored tail flashes from different cargo planes and aerial refueling tankers that came under its jurisdiction.
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Uncertainty Surrounds New Rule’s Impact On Aircraft Types
Although it wasn’t immediately clear which precise aircraft type may be impacted by the new rule, C-130J transports and KC-46 and KC-135 tankers had previously been sighted flying without these distinguishing marks by that time.
Among the aircraft allocated to AMC are KC-10 tankers, C-5 and C-17 freight planes, and both.
A photograph of a KC-135 tanker taken in February 2023 that lacks a serial number and other distinctive markers on its tail.USAF a number of other fleets fall under AMC’s purview, including the Air Force’s C-32As.
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