Ex-N370WA. Later N760FW, 67-30054 and converted to E-8C JSTARS 94-0285

K25 slide scan. Built 1967 as N370WA for World Airways. Leased to Korean Air Lines 1971, returned 1977. Leased to BMA 1977, subleases to Kuwait Airways and Air Algerie. Sobelair OO-SBU 1979, Florida West N760FW 1990. Omega Air 1992, stored Davis Monthan. Grumman 1992, converted to C-137C as 67-30054 and delivered to USAF 1995. Further converted to E-8C 94-0285 1997, current 2022. Climbing away from runway 10.

Purchased from World Airways in May 1979. Note the titles are painted differently than a few years later. The aircraft was sold to Florida West Airlines in March 1990 and finally ended up with the US Air Force first as C-137C, later on converted to a E-8C.

OO-SBU departs Sydney with King Baudouin and Queen Fabiola after their visit to the city. Owner Sobelair's titles had been replaced by parent company and national airline Sabena's for the royal tour that also took in Thailand and New Zealand. Note the engine has been zapped with a kangaroo, a fate that awaited most foreign aircraft hosted by the RAAF.

OO-SBU was sold in the US as N760FW in March 1990. The kangaroo zap on the engine is from a visit to Australia by the Belgian king and queen in 1987.