Dates

Event

4 August 1981

Constructed as a 767-200.
Factory Rollout date

1981

To Boeing Company, Kent, WA with new c/r N767BA.

26 September 1981

First flight.

From 1984 to August 1987

Converted to a 767-200(AST).
Airborne Surveillance Testbed.

From 1984 to 1987

Converted as Airborne Optical Adjunct (AOA)/Airborne Optical System (AOS) with a unique long-wavelength infra-red telescope housed in an 86-ft long, 8-ft high cupola. The extra keel area forward was compensated for by a pair of large ventral fins. The main cabin contained the signal and data processors to translate infrared target energy into tracking data as the events occurred. The system provided the precise location and apparent temperature of more than 400 targets simultaneously. Operating at altitudes above 43,000 feet, the AOA conducted long-range detection, tracking, discrimination, and infrared signature characterization of ballistic targets in all phases of their flight, from boost through reentry phases. The large cupola fairing on top of the fuselage was designed to house two optical sensor devices. Each optical sensor resided in its own compartment, one forward and one aft. Each compartment had a viewing port on the side of cupola, which would be opened during the observation part of the mission (Global Security).

21 August 1987

First flight.
First flight after conversion.

From 1987 to 2003

Operated by United States Army.

July 1988

Hughes Aircraft delivered the Airborne Surveillance Testbed Sensor, the most complex long-wavelength infrared sensor built to date.

13 August 1994

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
Notes: At Boeing Field, Seattle, WA

20 September 2003

Assigned to Victorville-Southern California Logistics Airport, CA for storage.

16 April 2007

Civil registration, N767BA, cancelled.

2008

Scrapped.