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    Airframe Family: Grumman C-2 Greyhound / E-2 Hawkeye
    Latest Model:E-2C Hawkeye
    Last Military Serial:44-3462 JASDF
    Compressed ID:Grumman E-2C sn 44-3462 JASDF
    Latest Owner or Location:603 Hikotai, Hiko Keikai Kanshigun, Naha AB, Okinawa, Japan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E-2C.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 164624.
    Issued for Production Admin purposes only (FMS) Did not serve with US forces.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Japanese Air Self Defense Force with s/n 44-3462.

    20 October 2013


    Photographer: John Tomlinson
    Notes: 2013 photo at Hamamatsu Air Force Base

    Transferred to 603 Hikotai, Hiko Keikai Kanshigun, Misawa AB, Japan.

    By April 2014

    Transferred to 603 Hikotai, Hiko Keikai Kanshigun, Naha AB, Okinawa, Japan.

    Markings Applied: 462

    6 December 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Naha AB, Okinawa, Japan

    7 December 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Naha AB Airshow, Okinawa, Japan
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     World Air Forces Directory by Ian Carroll
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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