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Tipoffs for Great Bend, Kansas (Federal Agencies) Newsletter for Tuesday July 02, 2024 ( 3 items )  

22nd Air Refueling Wing Completes First 45-Hour Nonstop KC-46 Flight Around the World
MCONNELL AFB, Kansas, July 2 -- The U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command issued the following news: By Airman Paula Arce, 22nd Air Refueling Wing public Affairs A 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-46A Pegasus executed the world's first nonstop, KC-46A Pegasus westbound circumnavigation endurance flight, called Project Magellan, June 29-July 1 starting and finishing here. This flight was the latest Maximum Endurance Operation (MEO) for the KC-46A Pegasus, Air Mobility Command's newest tanker aircraft.  more

McConnell AFB: 22nd Air Refueling Wing Completes First 45-Hour Nonstop KC-46 Flight Around the World
MCCONNELL AFB, Kansas, July 2 -- The U.S. Air Force McConnell Air Force Base (22nd Air Refueling Wing) issued the following news: By Airman Paula Arce, 22nd Air Refueling Wing public Affairs A 22nd Air Refueling Wing KC-46A Pegasus executed the world's first nonstop, KC-46A Pegasus westbound circumnavigation endurance flight, called Project Magellan, June 29-July 1 starting and finishing here. This flight was the latest Maximum Endurance Operation (MEO) for the KC-46A Pegasus, Air Mobility Co  more

Mo. U.S. Attorney: KC Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Wiring Drug-Trafficking Profits to Mexico
KANSAS CITY, Missouri, July 2 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on July 1, 2024: The owner of an Olathe, Kansas, business pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a money-laundering conspiracy to transfer the proceeds of heroin and methamphetamine trafficking to Mexico. A Kansas City, Mo., woman also pleaded guilty to her role in the drug-trafficking conspiracy. Ana Lilia Leal-Martinez, 48, a citizen of Mexico   more