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    The Boeing E-3 Sentry is an American airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed by Boeing. E-3s are commonly known as AWACS (Airborne...
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    The Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, also marketed as the Boeing 737 AEW&C, is a twin-engine airborne early warning and control aircraft based on the Boeing 737...
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    requirements. It is essentially the Boeing E-3 Sentry's surveillance radar and air control system installed on a Boeing 767-200. On September 6, 1976, Soviet...
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    William Edward Boeing (/ˈboʊɪŋ/; October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an American aviation pioneer. He founded the Pacific Airplane Company in 1916...
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    The Boeing E-6 Mercury (formerly Hermes) is an airborne command post and communications relay based on the Boeing 707-300. The original E-6A manufactured...
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    The Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident was the September 22, 1995 crash of a United States Air Force Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft...
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  • Grumman E-10 MC2A was planned as a multi-role military aircraft to replace the Boeing 707-based E-3 Sentry and E-8 Joint STARS, the Boeing 747-based E-4B,...
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    divisions: Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA), Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS), and Boeing Global Services (BGS). In 2021, Boeing recorded $62.3 billion...
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    The Boeing E-4 Advanced Airborne Command Post (AACP), the current "Nightwatch" aircraft, is a series of strategic command and control military aircraft...
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    The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed...
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    AEW, as opposed to a modification of an existing airframe, such as the Boeing E-3 Sentry. Variants of the Hawkeye have been in continuous production since...
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    for the E-8 STARS program and two ex-CF converted as E-8 and E-8C Boeing E-3 Sentry – Airborne early warning and control aircraft based on Boeing 707 airframe...
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    SAM 27000 Boeing 707 Boeing C-135 Stratolifter Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker Boeing CC-137 Boeing E-3 Sentry Boeing E-6 Mercury Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint...
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    JHL-40 Boeing Model 15 Boeing F2B Boeing F3B Boeing XF6B Boeing XF8B Boeing F-15E Strike Eagle Boeing F-15SE Silent Eagle Boeing F-15EX Eagle II Boeing F/A-18E/F...
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    The Boeing 767 is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The aircraft was launched as the 7X7 program...
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    The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After dropping its unconventional...
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    large aircraft. 1994 Fairchild Air Force Base B-52 crash 1995 Alaska Boeing E-3 Sentry accident List of airshow accidents and incidents "Pilot error blamed...
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    project was cancelled in 1986 in favour of an off-the-shelf solution in the Boeing E-3 Sentry. All Nimrod variants had been retired by mid-2011. On 4 June 1964...
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    Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the E-3 and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, but is often used as a general synonym for...
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    The Boeing F-47 is a planned American air superiority sixth-generation fighter aircraft to be developed by Boeing for the United States Air Force (USAF)...
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    used in this support capacity until 1991, when it was replaced by the Boeing E-3 Sentry AEW aircraft. These were the last examples of the type remaining...
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    equipment that will only function remote from the fuselage, for example the Boeing E-3 Sentry radar is housed in a nacelle called a radome. Edward Turner used...
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    and Boeing Related development Boeing 737 Boeing 737 Classic Boeing 737 MAX Boeing Business Jet Boeing C-40 Clipper Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Boeing P-8 Poseidon...
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    The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023...
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    The Boeing 757 is an American narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The then-named 7N7, a twinjet successor for the...
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    purchasing new build Boeing E-3 Sentry aircraft to fulfil the AEW requirement. In the mid 1960s, following the development of the Grumman E-2 Hawkeye carrier-borne...
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    WV-2, and WV-3. The USAF Warning Stars served during the Vietnam War both as electronic sensor monitors and as a forerunner to the Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS...
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    Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the main operating base of the NATO Boeing E-3 Sentry Component, one of two operational elements of the NATO Airborne...
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    replacement of its current fleet of E-3 Sentry aircraft. In November 2023, NATO decided to procure the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail. "Saab launches GlobalEye...
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    The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short...
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