CBP Air and Marine Operations bids farewell to P-3 AEW 'Dome'

Video posted Oct. 17, 2026 by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations (AMO) as a farewell to its P-3 Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft, known to crews as the 'Dome'. The 42-second clip shows personnel on work stands at the 'Air and Marine Operations' lettering on a P-3 fuselage inside a hangar, then a P-3 AEW with its rotodome in flight, ending with the captions 'Decades of Service' and 'A Lasting Legacy'. In an Oct. 6 release CBP said its last P-3 AEW made its final operational flight on Sept. 30, 2026 at NASOC Jacksonville, after decades of wide-area surveillance over the Caribbean, the Gulf of America and Central and South American transit zones in support of partners including Joint Interagency Task Force South.

What

CBP Air and Marine Operations bids farewell to P-3 AEW 'Dome'

Where

NASOC Jacksonville, Florida (home base per CBP)

When

Oct 17, 2026

Who

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (CBP AMO)

Status

Official release

Warning

Content warning: None. Hangar work on an aircraft and a P-3 in flight; no injuries shown. Watch at source. Graphic level: none.