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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:E-3G Sentry
    Last Military Serial:80-0138 USAF
    Construction Number:22830
    Compressed ID:Boeing E-3G sn 80-0138 USAF cn 2283...
    Latest Owner or Location:964th Airborne Air Control Squadron, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E-3C.
    Started life as E-3A but modified on production line as E-3B, but came off the line as E-3C.

    26 August 1981

    First flight.

    6 April 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 80-0138.

    Transferred to 552nd Airborne Warning and Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK.

    24 July 1982


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Dayton, OH for the International Air Show

    November 1982


    Photographer: John Winter via Fargo Air Museum

    From August 1990 to February 1991

    Participated in Operation Desert Storm, operating out of King Khalid Int Apt, Saudi Arabia and Incirlik, Turkey.

    1 October 1991

    Transferred to 965th Airborne Air Control Squadron, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK.
    Operated with markings: OK
    552nd Unit redesignated.

    By October 2005

    Transferred to 960th Airborne Air Control Squadron, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK.
    Operated with markings: OK

    Was deployed to Libya for a period of time with the 960th.

    By September 2006

    Transferred to 961st Airborne Air Control Squadron, 18th Wing, Kadena Air Base, Japan.
    Operated with markings: ZZ

    By June 2009

    Transferred to 964th Airborne Air Control Squadron, 552nd Air Control Wing, Tinker AFB, OK.
    Operated with markings: OK

    Circa July 2015

    Converted to an E-3G.

    24 March 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX
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