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    Airframe Family: Boeing B747 / C-25 / C-33 / E-4 / AL-1
    Latest Model:E-4B
    Last Military Serial:73-1677 USAF
    Construction Number:20683
    Compressed ID:Boeing E-4B sn 73-1677 USAF cn 2068...
    Latest Owner or Location:1st Airborne Command Control Squadron, 595th Command and Control Group, Offutt AFB, NE

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    Dates

    Event

    1973

    Constructed as an E-4A.

    11 September 1973

    First flight.

    3 October 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 73-1677.

    1974

    Transferred to 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron, 1st Composite Wing, Andrews AFB, MD.

    1 November 1975

    Transferred to 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron, 55th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing, Andrews AFB, MD.

    1 July 1977

    Base of operations changed.
    Offutt AFB, NE.

    Circa 1983

    Converted to an E-4B.

    8 June 1995


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 1995 photo at Brussels Airport, Belgium

    1 September 1999

    Transferred to 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron, 55th Wing, Offut AFB, NE.
    Wing unit name changed.

    22 May 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA, while the aircraft was practicing approaches and take-offs and landings. Based at Offutt AFB, NE

    22 May 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA, while the aircraft was practicing approaches and take-offs and landings. Based at Offutt AFB, NE

    22 May 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA, while the aircraft was practicing approaches and take-offs and landings. Based at Offutt AFB, NE

    22 May 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: 35mm slide photographed from the control tower at Cedar Rapids, IA, while the aircraft was practicing approaches and take-offs and landings. Based at Offutt AFB, NE

    26 August 2016

    Transferred to 1st Airborne Command Control Squadron, 595th Command and Control Group, Offutt AFB, NE.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
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