SNC Begins E-4C Flight Tests

A former Korean Airlines 747 at SNC’s Ohio facility. Credit: SNC

A former Korean Airlines 747 at SNC’s Ohio facility.

Credit: SNC
SNC has begun test flights for the U.S. Air Force’s Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC), about five months after it began work on the first airframe. The company in a Sept. 3 announcement said the first test flight took place on Aug. 7. SNC is converting Boeing 747-8is that it procured from...
Brian Everstine

Brian Everstine is the Pentagon Editor for Aviation Week, based in Washington, D.C.

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