Production of hydrogen on-board an airplane, to feed a fuel cell secondary power generation unit, is realisable by catalytic partial dehydrogenation of kerosene. The influence of the nature support on the partial dehydrogenation of Ultra Low Sulfur Kerosene Jet A-1 using Pt-Sn based catalysts is investigated in this work. The doping of an alumina support with barium oxide leads to a catalyst providing a productivity of 2000 NLH2 kg(cat)(-1) h(-1) with H-2 purity of 97 vol.%. (c) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.