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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:E-3B Sentry
    Last Military Serial:77-0352 USAF
    Construction Number:21552
    Compressed ID:Boeing E-3B sn 77-0352 USAF cn 2155...
    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-3A.

    15 May 1978

    First flight.

    20 November 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 77-0352.

    Circa December 1978

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

    Circa 1982

    Converted to an E-3B.

    By August 1990

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

    From August 1990 to February 1991

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

    1 May 1996


    Photographer: unknown

    January 2001

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

    By September 2002

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

    February 2007

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

    By August 2007

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

    From By September 2008 to After June 2018

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

    4 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Tinker AFB, OK

    4 April 2009


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Tinker AFB, OK
    This dossier is waiting for review by an editor.This airframe dossier was started by a contributor.
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    Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Go! Navy by Takafumi Hiroe
    Lazy G Ranch
    Plane Finder
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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