The current Navy aircraft designated for this mission is the Boeing E-6 Mercury, which is based on the Boeing 707-300. It's a mobile, airborne command post and operations center used as a ...

The Ecuadorian defense minister, Oswaldo Jarrín, said that "a Boeing 707 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force with radar surveillance and a Lockheed P-3 Orion aircraft will patrol the Pacific Ocean," in ...