Arizona ANG’s snakelike KC-135R

USAF-operated KC-135R Stratotanker (59-1469) assigned to the Arizona ANG’s 161st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) ‘Copperheads’ at Goldwater ANGB – which is co-located at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona – now sports a special ‘Copperhead Snake’ livery. The aircraft features an orange snake skin bursting through the tanker’s standard single-tone gray operational paint scheme as the latter peels away from the aircraft’s vertical stabilizer. The KC-135R also features a long, characterized orange snake along the length of its