10th Flight Test Squadron
The 10th Flight Test Squadron is part of the 413th Flight Test Group of Air Force Materiel Command based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. It performs acceptance testing on refurbished Rockwell B-1 Lancer, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, Boeing E-3 Sentry, and Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft before they are returned to their units.
F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 10th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Hahn Air Base
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10th TFS McDonnell F-4D Phantoms
The Boeing E-3 Sentry is an American airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft developed by Boeing. E-3s are commonly known as AWACS. Derived from the Boeing 707 airliner, it provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications, and is used by the United States Air Force, NATO, French Air and Space Force, Royal Saudi Air Force and Chilean Air Force. The E-3 has a distinctive rotating radar dome (rotodome) above the fuselage. Production ended in 1992 after 68 aircraft had been built.
Boeing E-3 Sentry
The piston-engined EC-121 Warning Star, military version of the Lockheed Constellation, saw service in the mid-1950s.
Welcome ceremony for first E-3 aircraft at Tinker AFB in 1977
Close-up rotodome revolving at 6 revolutions per minute.
