Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C. Before joining Aviation Week in August 2021, Brian covered the Pentagon for Air Force Magazine. Brian began covering defense aviation in 2011 as a reporter for Military Times. Over a decade as a defense journalist, he has reported from dozens of bases at home and abroad, including austere airstrips in Afghanistan, the cockpit of a B-52 over the South Pacific and the boom operator station of a KC-46. Before the military beat, Brian covered the Washington state legislature for the Associated Press.
Boeing on Oct. 6 handed over the 48th KC-46 to the U.S. Air Force, the latest delivery in a year that has seen several missed deadlines due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and a lingering problem of foreign object debris inside the tankers.
The U.S. Air Force will have a shortage of Pratt & Whitney F100-220 and F100-229 engines that power F-15s and F-16s through at least April 2024 as the service focuses sustainment resources on higher priority problems with the F-15 Eagle fleet, a new report says.
