N604MA

The airframe bearing tail number N604MA is a 1963-built Boeing C-135FR Stratotanker, constructor serial 63-8470. The certificate record lists the owner as Wilmington Trust Co Trustee, a corporate trustee located in Wilmington, DE, US, and the aircraft is registered in the US. Registry entries for this airframe reflect long-term corporate trusteeship rather than an active commercial operator; operator and home base are not published in the provided data. Condition and valuation highlights are not published beyond the preserved basic registry and configuration data.

The listed cabin for this airframe is a tanker configuration featuring a boom refuelling station and crew seating for pilot/copilot/boom operator, with limited passenger transport capability of up to approximately 37 passengers in a transport reconfiguration. Specific avionics fit is not published in the supplied data; typical mission profiles implied by the configuration include long-endurance aerial refuelling sorties and repositioning flights given the extended 9,574 nm range and high-altitude capability to 50,000 ft. Maintenance considerations for this individual aircraft stem from its age (built 1963) and the integration of high-bypass CFM56-2B turbine modules, which represent a significant component-level modernization relative to original-production configurations. Unique amenities are not published.

As a member of the Boeing C-135FR Stratotanker family, this airframe occupies a performance niche defined by multi-engine, long-range tanker capability with high cruise speed (461 kts) and high service ceiling (50,000 ft). Competing platforms for comparable role flexibility would typically be other fixed-wing multi-engine tanker conversions rather than standard passenger airframes. Buyer and charter demand for a single trustee-owned tanker-configured airframe is limited and specialized; resale and maintenance considerations are dominated by age-related structural and systems lifecycle factors and by logistics for the CFM56-2B engines.