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"It's the only one able to fly passengers that's left in the world." His "dream-flight," he says, would be on a Lockheed L-1011. The only ones still flying, he says, are in Pakistan.

The aircraft, an E-3 Sentry, is decades old and nearing the end of its service life. But crew members said the aging plane is still a surveillance and command and control workhorse.