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Air Force to make tanker announcement shortly

Published 1:51 pm Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Air Force will hold at press conference at 2 p.m., PST, about its aerial refueling tanker contest.

EADS had asked for an extension of the May 10 bid deadline. Boeing plans to offer a tanker based off its 767 jet.

The contract is to replace 179 Eisenhower-era KC-135 tankers.