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All updates by medals chairman Tony K., as appearing in the club's newsletter.

May 2023 update: A second mailing went out regarding selling some of the remaining 2023 medals to prior customers who haven’t ordered yet. Also emailed Capital Plastics about getting more 3-piece medal holders since we sold out, and to have them on hand for the 2024 medals. The remaining 2022 medals were sold at the April meeting with a limit of one of each medal per person. The medals sold out with no one getting a chance to buy a second medal.

April 2023 update: Mailing prior medal customers to see about selling off some of the remaining 2023 medals to reduce our inventory and generate more funds for the club. The board will be offering the remaining 2022 medals for sell at the April meeting. The board will discuss and decide the price prior to the meeting. All medals will be sold. There are 15 silvers, 6 bronze and 8 pewters remaining of the 2022 medals.

March 2023 update: All the current medal orders have been delivered. We do have about 50 silvers, 30 bronze and 35 pewters left so I will be mailing out the order form to the usual buyers that haven’t purchased yet to see if it was an oversight due to the late arrivals of the 2023 medals. We also still have some 2022 medals available for purchase. Tony will be contacting previous buyers to let them know there are more available.

December 2022 update: Medals will be available in the very near future as I try to assemble three-piece set holders and put orders together. See you at the December meeting!!

October-November 2022 update: There has been a strong response to this year’s medals as the orders keep coming in. The medals are in the process of being struck. Pewter medals are in the process of being polished. We are hopeful that the medals will be available at the November meeting. Instead of going with a generic holder we approached Capital Plastics for custom holders again and are waiting for the quote and delivery. If things are favorable, we will go with the custom black holders.

September 2022 update: The 2023 KC-46 Refueling medal design will have its entire production run of silver medals at the standard one ounce. The club ordered enough material for 200 silver, and 100 each of pewter, bronze and copper, one ounce medals. The BECC has cut a check to the mint to purchase the needed silver. The price of silver was locked at $21.50. Silver medals will cost $40. There were minor increases in the price of bronze, pewter and copper medals due to increases in minting costs.

June 2022 update: Last year, supply chain issues and silver demand had a huge impact on our medals order. I was hoping that the "supply chain issues" were all going to be resolved for this year’s medal. The demand for silver is still high. Even though the price has dropped some, it’s not a lot compared to last year. I don’t know if all the foundries are back up and running or not. But after having BEX, the company that makes our medal, checking around with all the foundries I have some bad news … The 2023 KC-46 medal design will have its entire production run of silver medals at the standard one ounce. The 1.5 ounce planchet is non-standard and the demand for the standard one ounce is so high that no foundry will stop to convert their process for our limited run of planchets. So 2023 will have a one-ounce silver medal, which beats no silver medal at all.

May 2022 update: Boeing Licensing and Marketing has approved the design on the club’s 2023 medal. Two planes meant two different “groups” had to approve the design. Yes, there were changes that had to be made, but the good news is they provided a similar photo except the picture was taken from the other side of the plane. Not that they were really nitpicky, but it turns out the photo I was given by Boeing that I based the design off of was actually an artist concept of the plane before final design and there were subtle differences. Some tweaking was done and they liked how it turned out so it didn’t take too long the second time around for the collective okays and approval. A deposit for this medal has been mailed to the mint.

March/April 2022 update: Work has begun on the club’s 2023 medal!! The current 2023 design is ready to go for Boeing approval – hoping this goes smoothly as they supplied the picture the main design is based on.The 2023 design is going to depict a KC-46A refueling a F-15E fighter jet with another F-15E in the view.

Mintages of 2023 medal: (Needs to be updated)

Silver -
Pewter - 
Bronze - 
Copper - 
Antique finish bronze (for awards) -
Brushed nickel (for exhibit awards) - 
Total -