KC-135s
Converted to EC-135A Looking Glass, 1965:
58-0019, 58-0022, 61-0262, 61-0289, 61-0293
Converted to EC-135C Looking Glass, 1965:
63-8047, 63-8048, 63-8049, 63-8051, 63-8056
Others that I have seen in pictures:
58-0053
From Tom Hildreth:
56-3563
56-3591
56-3592
56-3602
56-3607
56-3609
56-3612
56-3621
56-3624
56-3630
56-3636
56-3637
56-3638
56-3643
56-3647
56-3648
56-3649
56-3650
56-3652
57-1498 (crashed in 1963 near Westover)
58-0070
61-0264
61-0265
61-0283
61-0288
61-0294
61-0296
61-0298
61-0299
61-0303
61-0306
61-0307
61-0308
61-0312
61-0320
61-0321
62-3498
62-3499
63-8049
Other notes:
#56-3599 crashed June 27, 1958; it was the
first KC-135 in the Air Force to crash. Click on
In Memoriam to read more about this tragedy.
Look for more tail numbers of other former Westover aircraft soon - including those from fighter units assigned to
the base
B-52C Remarks
53-0401, 0402, 0403, 0404, 0405
0406 Crashed Jan. 24, 1963 on Elephant Mountain, near
Greenville, Maine
0407, 0408
54-2664 Mid-air collision with KC-97 53-3231 Dec. 14, 1959
2665
2666 (see photo below) Crashed into Lake Michigan, Jan. 7, 1971
2667, 2668, 2670, 2671, 2672, 2673,
2674, 2675, 2676, 2677, 2678, 2679
2680,2681
2682 First 99th BMW B-52 lost - crashed Aug. 10, 1959
2683, 2684, 2685, 2686, 2687, 2688
B-52D Remarks
55-0049, 50050
50051 Mid-air collision with KC-135 58-80055 while refueling on
Dec. 25, 1959 (both a/c landed safely)
50052, 50053, 50054, 50055, 50056, 50107
50114 Crashed Dec. 9, 1960
50116, 50117
56-0581, 60588, 60595
The B-52 information, from the 1959-1961 time period, was provided courtesy of Stan Lukasiewicz, who was assigned to Westover in the late 1950s.