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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:E-3A Sentry
    Last Military Serial:LX-N790443 NATO
    Construction Number:22838
    Compressed ID:Boeing E-3A sn LX-N790443 NATO cn 2...
    Latest Owner or Location:NATO AEWF, Geilenkirchen, FRG

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an E-3A.

    1981

    Assigned s/n 79-0443 with the United States Air Force for administrative purposes. It did not serve with this service.

    13 August 1981

    First flight.

    19 May 1982

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization with s/n LX-N790443.

    26 May 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: E-3A Sentry of the NATO Airborne Early Warning Force taking off at RAF Mildenhall at the 1990 Air Fete.

    By July 1990


    Photographer: Unknown

    Transferred to NATO AEWF, Geilenkirchen, FRG.

    By August 2001


    Photographer: Unknown

    26 August 2007


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: At Rygge Air Show 2007 at Rygge Air Force Base / Oslo-Rygge Airport, Norway 26. August 2007.

    26 August 2007


    Photographer: Johnny Comstedt
    Notes: At Rygge Air Show 2007 at Rygge Air Force Base / Oslo-Rygge Airport, Norway 26. August 2007.
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