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    Airframe Family: Boeing B707 / C-135 / C-137 / C-18 / E-3 / E-6 / E-8
    Latest Model:E-8C JSTARS
    Last Military Serial:94-0284 USAF
    Construction Number:19293
    Last Civil Registration:N861BX
    Compressed ID:Northrop Grumman E-8C sn 94-0284 US...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Air Force

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a 707-338C.

    28 January 1967

    To Qantas Airways with new c/r VH-EBT.
    Operated with markings: City of Bendigo

    June 1968


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Qantas Boeing 707-338C VH-EBT in the Qantas V-Jet scheme, at Perth Airport, Western Australia i June 1968.

    17 May 1978

    To British Midland Airways with new c/r G-BFLE.

    From July 1978 to April 1979

    Leased to Pakistan International Cargo.

    30 January 1979


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: Boeing 707-338C G-BFLE - PIA Cargo, at East Midlands 30th Jan 1979

    October 1979

    Leased to Gulf Air.

    1980


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinabold
    Notes: G-BFLE - Boeing B-707-3380C - Gulf Air (leased from British Midland Airways) at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) in 1980

    From September 1980 to May 1981

    Leased to DETA/LAM Mozambique.

    February 1981


    Photographer: EX/Zx Collection
    Notes: At Paris Charles de Gaulle

    April 1981

    Leased to Ariana Afghan Airlines.

    May 1981


    Photographer: EX/ZX Collection
    Notes: At East Midlands Airport

    From June 1981 to 1984

    To British Midland Airways keeping c/r G-BFLE.

    Circa 1982


    Photographer: Carl Ford
    Notes: At Birmingham (UK)

    22 November 1985

    To Southern Air Transport with new c/r N861BX.
    Operating for Burlington Express.

    Circa 1986


    Photographer: Paul Lammens

    June 1993

    To Buffalo Airway keeping c/r N861BX.
    SOperating for Burlington Express.

    2 June 1994

    To Grumman Aerospace with new c/r N2178F.
    Grumman Aerospace.

    Converted to an E-8C by Northrop Grumman.

    18 July 1994

    To Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Melbourne, FL with new c/r N861BX.

    11 April 1996

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 94-0284.

    3 October 2010


    Photographer: Bruce Smith


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