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

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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

2026-10-17

Source

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Credit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (watch at source)

License

Link-only (source-hosted; not rehosted)

Details

Official release · U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (CBP AMO) · NASOC Jacksonville, Florida (home base per CBP)

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