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E-3G Sentry 81-0005, seen on a sunny Monday morning in September 2025 while in the pattern at Pittsburgh. As I recall, it departed after a quick stop for up somewhere in the New England states afterwards, and then was at the London, Ontario airshow<\/div>\n
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Direct underside planform view of a Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS in flight. The image highlights the swept-wing platform, four wing-mounted TF33 turbofan engines, high-visibility USAF insignia and underwing lettering, and the prominent rotating AN\/APY-1\/2 radar rotodome mounted on aft dorsal struts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Low-angle underside view looking up at a Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS making a banked turn in flight. The image highlights the illuminated landing\/taxi lights on the main gear doors, four podded turbofan engines, swept-wing platform, underwing USAF stenciling, and the distinct black-and-white rotating rotodome mounted above the aft fuselage against a bright blue sky.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Magazine Articles<\/h3>\n
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Illustration: “Boeing AWACS Design Includes Aft-Mounted Antenna” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 January 1, 1968 \u2014 p.18<\/div>\n
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“AWACS Testbed Rolled Out; Radar Trials Set for March” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 February 7, 1972 \u2014 p.17<\/div>\n
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Photos (3): “Radome Assembly For AWACS Shown” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 February 14, 1972 \u2014 p.23<\/div>\n
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Photo: “AWACS Testbed in First Flight” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 February 21, 1972 \u2014 p.18<\/div>\n
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Photo: “USAF\/Boeing AWACS Testbed” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 February 28, 1972 \u2014 front cover<\/div>\n
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Photo: “USAF\/Boeing AWACS Prototype” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 March 24, 1975 \u2014 front cover<\/div>\n
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Photo: “Production Avionics-Equipped E-3A Begins Tests” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 November 17, 1975 \u2014 p.37<\/div>\n
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Benjamin M. Elson \u2014 “Air Force Gets First Operational E-3A” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 March 28, 1977\u2014 p.19-21 \u2014 3 photos<\/div>\n
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Benjamin M. Elson \u2014 “E-3A Expands USAF Air Defense Capabilities” Aviation Week & Space Technology \u2014 April 18, 1977 \u2014p.49-53 \u2014 6 illustrations<\/div>\n
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Andy Sheppard “Aircraft In Detail Military Boeing 707s”\u00a0 \u00a0Scale Aircraft Modelling Vol 21 No.1\u00a0 Includes a cover image of a USAF E-3<\/div>\n
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E-3G Sentry 81-0005, seen on a sunny Monday morning in September 2025 while in the pattern at Pittsburgh. As I recall, it departed after a quick stop for up somewhere in the New England states afterwards, and then was at the London, Ontario airshow Magazine Articles Illustration: “Boeing AWACS Design Includes Aft-Mounted Antenna” Aviation Week […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-180","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/180\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermreed.net\/aviation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}