FWB Boeing engineers C-130 tanker

FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - A new fuel tanker aircraft designed and engineered at the Fort Walton Beach Boeing office has been delivered to the Japan Air Self-Defense Forces. Boeing Fort Walton Beach partnered with Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Cobham Mission Systems to convert a C-130H into a flying refueling station. The project got its start with work Boeing Fort Walton Beach completed for the Air Force Special Operations Command, converting 20 C-130Hs into tankers. That caught the eye of the Japan, which needed tankers for UH-60 rescue helicopters. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX and TradingMarkets, 04/25/10)