Omega Aerial Refueling Services


Omega Air Refueling is a company which provides aerial refueling services for military units. According to the company's website, Omega developed the first commercial aerial refueling aircraft in 1999, and has provided aerial refueling services under contract to the United States Navy since 2001. The company has also been engaged to support Royal Australian Air Force training exercises due to delays to the delivery of the Air Force's KC-30A tankers. In addition, Omega Air Refueling states that it has been contracted to support deployments by the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force.
On 18 May 2011 one of the company's KC-707 tankers,, was destroyed after it crashed on takeoff from Naval Base Ventura County in California. All three crew members survived.
On 22 April 2015 one of Omega Air's KC-707s refuelled a Northrop Grumman X-47B. The US Navy told the media that this was the first time an unmanned aerial vehicle had been refuelled in flight.
In November 2019 it was announced that two KDC-10 Tankers from the Royal Netherlands Air Force will be acquired and as such additional capacity will be added, including 'boom capability' in addition to the existing 'hose and drogue' of the existing fleet. The aircraft which were bought in 1995 by the RNLAF from Martinair as civilian DC-10's which flew passengers. The planes were converted to tanker aircraft. Because the planes were getting older and the RNLAF bought 2 A330 MRTT from Airbus, they sold their old tankers to Omega Air Refueling.
The first of the 2 sold tankers, T-264 Prins Bernard, took off monday November 4th 2019 from Eindhoven AIr Base in the Netherlands.

Fleet

, Omega Air Refueling operated three Boeing KC-707s and one McDonnell Douglas KDC-10. They are currently converting one 707-320 ,a former Romanian VIP transport, into a KC-707 tanker.

AircraftIn FleetOrdersNotes
McDonnell Douglas KDC-1012
Boeing KC-70721