E-3 Sentry seen at Brize 2022?

[Killingholme]

Hi all,

 

I live a couple of miles from Brize, so I usually don't bother looking up when something is doing circuits. But last week I noticed a slightly different noise breaking the peace when I was walking the dog, looked up, and saw a E-3 Sentry doing circuits. What's the deal with them? I thought the RAF had withdrawn them?

 

Will

Edited April 27, 2022 by Killingholme

[exdraken]

Chile is supposedly buying them and might be working up...

 

From some time back  not sure if there are any updates on that info:

[Duncan B]

According to ADS-B there was an RAF coded E-3 flying around central England last week. It could be an incorrect transponder code or it could be that at least one of them is still flying occasionally for crew training/rating or post maintenance test flying before they go to Chile?

 

Duncan B

[Killingholme]

Rumours of my death are greatly exaggerated!

 

E-3D Sentry ZH106 has been on holiday in the Cotswolds today, coming down from Waddington to do a couple of hours of circuits of Brize.

 

Will

[theplasticsurgeon]

3 hours ago, Killingholme said:

E-3D Sentry ZH106 has been on holiday in the Cotswolds today, coming down from Waddington to do a couple of hours of circuits of Brize.

Saw it flying overhead earlier this afternoon.

[Mark72]

FlightRadar24 suggests ZH103 was flying a figure of 8 stretching from Peterborough to Norwich earlier today...it makes for an impressive screenshot!!

[canberraman]

ZH103 and ZH106 reported to be leaving for Chile before end of July 2022. A third aircraft - ZH101, is supposedly being broken up on site at Waddington.

 

Mark

[Killingholme]

It's funny last week I saw a E-3 sentry, C-130s and Chinooks all over Brize Norton and I thought "nice to see some classic old-school RAF aircraft there" before thinking, oh wait, they're all American designs!

 

Will