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Navy E-6B Mercury at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Like the E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft, the E-6 is adapted from Boeing's 707-320 airliner. Rolled out at Boeing's Renton Factory in December 1986, [2] the first E-6 made its maiden flight in February 1987, when it was flown to nearby Boeing Field in south Seattle for fitting of mission avionics.
The squadron transitioned from the EC-130Q to the Boeing E-6A Mercury in 1989-90, and relocated to Tinker Air Force Base in 1992. [citation needed] The TACAMO Community Veterans Association organization has a museum and history kiosk at Kalaeloa Airport, on the site of the former NAS Barbers Point. It was dedicated 6 September 2016, with former ...
A U.S. Navy TACAMO EC-130Q of VQ-4, in 1984. The acronym was coined in 1961 [citation needed] and the first aircraft modified for TACAMO testing was a Lockheed KC-130 Hercules which in 1962 was fitted with a VLF transmitter and trailing wire antenna to test communications with the fleet ballistic missile submarines (see communication with submarines).
The Lockheed Martin E-130J [1] is a planned airborne command post and communication relay aircraft based on the C-130J-30.. The E-130J is intended to replace the Boeing E-6 Mercury in the TACAMO role for the US Navy, but not the associated "Looking Glass" role for the US Air Force. [2]
With production lasting until 1991, the E-6 was the final new derivative of the Boeing 707 to be built. [8] Northrop Grumman E-10 MC2A; The Northrop 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, and the RC-135 Rivet Joint aircraft in US ...
The Navy E-6s were the last 16 aircraft to roll off of Boeing’s venerable 707 line after 30 years of production. [2] On 25 January 1991, VQ-4 took delivery of its first E-6A Mercury aircraft and in November 1992, changed homeport to Tinker AFB, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. On 20 September 1999, VQ-4 took delivery of its first E-6B.
Mercury is still at work in Hammondsport, more than a century after Henry Kleckler figured folks could use some help with their aging Curtiss Jennys. The Mercury Aircraft Story: How a signature ...
Single aircraft with mission equipment removed, used for flight crew training. [37] YE-8B Single aircraft, was to be a U.S. Navy Boeing E-6 Mercury but transferred to the U.S. Air Force as a development aircraft before it was decided to convert second-hand Boeing 707s (one from a Canadian Boeing CC-137) for the JSTARS role. E-8C