{"id":26474141,"date":"2026-10-04T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/?p=26474141"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:52:42","slug":"chile-eb-707-condor-phalcon-radar-awacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/de\/chile-eb-707-condor-phalcon-radar-awacs\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f3ndor: Chile\u2019s Boeing 707 With a Radar for a Nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid #0F1720;background:#fff;color:#0F1720;font-family:inherit;font-size:14px;font-weight:700;line-height:1;letter-spacing:0;text-transform:none;cursor:pointer;box-shadow:none;transition:background .15s,color 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The Chilean Air Force&rsquo;s C\u00f3ndor did it with its face. Where a Boeing 707 should have a slim, pointed nose, this one had a huge rounded bulge, as if the airliner had swallowed something too big to get down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What it had swallowed was a radar. The EB-707 C\u00f3ndor, serial 904, carried Israel&rsquo;s EL\/M-2075 Phalcon, one of the first airborne radars to look around without any moving antenna at all. When it arrived in 1995 it gave the Fuerza A\u00e9rea de Chile the first airborne early warning and control aircraft in South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;border-left:4px solid #1a1a1a;padding:18px 22px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px\"><li><strong>Aircraft:<\/strong> Boeing 707-385C rebuilt as the EB-707 C\u00f3ndor, Chilean Air Force serial 904<\/li><li><strong>Built:<\/strong> First flew 13 September 1965; flew for LAN Chile from 1969<\/li><li><strong>Converted by:<\/strong> Israel Aerospace Industries and its Elta radar subsidiary<\/li><li><strong>Radar:<\/strong> Elta EL\/M-2075 Phalcon, L-band, fixed active electronically scanned arrays<\/li><li><strong>In service:<\/strong> Delivered May 1995, Grupo de Aviaci\u00f3n N\u00b0 10, Pudahuel, Santiago<\/li><li><strong>Retired:<\/strong> April 2022, replaced by ex-RAF E-3D Sentry aircraft<\/li><li><strong>Fate:<\/strong> Scrapped from 2025; nose radome and cockpit preserved at Chile&rsquo;s national aviation museum<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">An Airliner Rebuilt Around a Radar<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The airframe had a long life before the radar. It was built as a 707-385C, a passenger and cargo convertible, and first flew on 13 September 1965 under a Boeing registration, N68657. The airline that ordered it never took delivery, and in December 1969 it went to LAN Chile as CC-CEB. The Chilean Air Force bought it in 1990 and sent it to Israel, where Israel Aerospace Industries and Elta rebuilt it around the Phalcon. During the conversion it flew under the Israeli registration 4X-JYI, and it appeared at the Paris Air Show in 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reached Chile in May 1995 and joined Grupo de Aviaci\u00f3n N\u00b0 10 at Pudahuel air base, which shares its site with Santiago&rsquo;s international airport. Chilean media have put the conversion contract at about US$150 million, though other published estimates are much higher. Chile was the only export customer for the 707 version of the Phalcon; Israel flew its own 707 Phalcons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/eb-707-condor-phalcon-nose-radome-fidae-2014.jpg\" alt=\"The bulbous nose radome and cheek fairings of the Chilean EB-707 Condor at FIDAE 2014\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">The C\u00f3ndor&rsquo;s nose radome and the long cheek fairing along the fuselage, both housing fixed radar arrays, at the FIDAE air show in Santiago in 2014. Photo: J. Joaqu\u00edn C. Baeza, CC BY 2.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;El primer avi\u00f3n AEW&amp;C en servicio en Sudam\u00e9rica.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Infodefensa<\/strong> &mdash; describing the C\u00f3ndor, 2025 (&ldquo;the first AEW&amp;C aircraft in service in South America&rdquo;)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yJJUyxE_pSY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How a Radar Looks Around Without Moving<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The American E-3 Sentry and the Russian A-50 carry their radar antenna in a rotodome that turns several times a minute, so any given target is only illuminated for a moment on each sweep. The Phalcon replaced the rotating dish with fixed, flat antenna arrays built into the aircraft&rsquo;s skin: one behind the nose radome and others in the long fairings along each side of the fuselage. Some sources also describe a fourth array under the tail, which Chilean sources do not mention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each array is an active electronically scanned array, or AESA. Instead of one transmitter and a moving antenna, it is made of hundreds of small solid-state transmit and receive modules, reportedly 768 per array. A computer adjusts the timing of each module so that their signals add up in one direction, steering the beam electronically. The beam can jump from one target to another in a fraction of a second and dwell longer on anything interesting, something a rotating dish cannot do. Chilean sources credit the C\u00f3ndor&rsquo;s radar with detecting a fighter-sized target at around 400 kilometres, and give its coverage as 260 degrees around the aircraft rather than a full circle. It also carried electronic and communications intelligence equipment for listening to radar and radio emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x5Hh5A0HDnM\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Deal That Did Not Happen<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Phalcon&rsquo;s biggest moment in international politics came without the C\u00f3ndor. In the late 1990s Israel agreed to fit Phalcon radars to Russian-built A-50 airframes for China. Washington objected strongly, arguing the system could shift the military balance across the Taiwan Strait, and in July 2000 Prime Minister Ehud Barak halted the sale. His successor Ariel Sharon confirmed the cancellation in a letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin in 2001, and Israel agreed in 2002 to pay China about US$350 million, the advance China had paid plus compensation. China went on to build its own early-warning aircraft, the KJ-2000.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">India&rsquo;s Phalcons<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The same radar family found a much bigger customer next door to China. In March 2004 India signed a deal worth about US$1.1 billion for three Phalcon AWACS, this time on Il-76 airframes, designated A-50EI, with the EL\/W-2090 radar. Their radome sits on top like a conventional AWACS dish, but it does not rotate: inside it are fixed arrays scanning electronically through 360 degrees. The first A-50EI landed at Jamnagar on 25 May 2009, and all three were in service by March 2011. India approved two more in 2016, but that deal has not been signed. It has since added its own smaller Netra system on Embraer jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/indian-air-force-a-50ei-phalcon-awacs.jpg\" alt=\"An Indian Air Force A-50EI Phalcon AWACS with its fixed, non-rotating radome\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">An A-50EI Phalcon for the Indian Air Force in May 2009, shortly before delivery. Its radome does not turn; the radar inside scans electronically. Photo: Michael Sender, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Retirement, and a Sentry to Replace It<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a quarter of a century the C\u00f3ndor was showing its age, both as a 1960s airframe and as a 1990s radar. It made its last operational flights in 2020 and was formally retired in April 2022, appearing on static display at that year&rsquo;s FIDAE air show in Santiago. Its replacement came from Britain: Chile acquired three retired RAF E-3D Sentries, two to fly and one to strip for spares. The first, the former ZH103, arrived in July 2022 as FACh 905, the serial the C\u00f3ndor had originally carried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The Chilean Air Force&rsquo;s plan is to put two of the jets into service and use the third as a source of spare parts.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Janes<\/strong> &mdash; reporting on Chile&rsquo;s E-3D purchase, quoted by The War Zone, January 2022<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The C\u00f3ndor itself was dismantled at Pudahuel in the spring of 2025. Not all of it was lost: on 22 July 2025 the nose radome, the cockpit section and parts of the side radar fairings were delivered to Chile&rsquo;s Museo Nacional Aeron\u00e1utico y del Espacio for display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gkgAY9Fx0R4\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">What the Viral Version Gets Right<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The posts now circulating about the C\u00f3ndor get the essentials right: the Phalcon radar, the fixed arrays, the 1965 airframe and its LAN Chile past, the 2022 retirement and the E-3D replacement, India&rsquo;s US$1.1 billion order and the cancelled China deal. Two details need softening. The airframe joined LAN Chile in 1969, four years after it was built. And the claim that the arrays covered all 360 degrees, including one under the tail, is disputed: Chilean sources describe nose and side arrays covering 260 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sources: Infodefensa (2025); Aviacionline; Pucar\u00e1 Defensa; Zona Militar; Museo Nacional Aeron\u00e1utico y del Espacio (22 July 2025); The War Zone (January 2022); UK Defence Journal; Aviacionline on the E-3D handover (August 2022); Arms Control Association (September 2001); Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; GlobalSecurity; Livefist Defence (May 2009); Defense Industry Daily; airhistory.net and production records for c\/n 19000<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>What was the Chilean Air Force EB-707 C\u00f3ndor?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The EB-707 C\u00f3ndor was an airborne early warning and control aircraft operated by the Chilean Air Force from 1995 to 2022. It was a 1965 Boeing 707-385C, formerly flown by LAN Chile, rebuilt by Israel Aerospace Industries around the Elta EL\/M-2075 Phalcon radar, and it was the first AEW&amp;C aircraft in service in South America.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why did the C\u00f3ndor have such a large nose?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The bulbous nose of the EB-707 C\u00f3ndor housed one of the fixed antenna arrays of its Phalcon radar. Further arrays sat in long fairings along the sides of the fuselage, so the radar could scan electronically without a rotating dish on top.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How does the Phalcon radar work?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Phalcon is an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. Each fixed antenna panel contains hundreds of small transmit and receive modules, and a computer steers the beam electronically by adjusting their timing, so it can switch between targets almost instantly instead of waiting for a rotating antenna to come round.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>When was the EB-707 C\u00f3ndor retired?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The C\u00f3ndor made its last operational flights in 2020 and was formally retired in April 2022. It was dismantled at Pudahuel air base in 2025, and its nose radome and cockpit were delivered to Chile&rsquo;s national aviation and space museum in July 2025.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What replaced the C\u00f3ndor?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Chile replaced the C\u00f3ndor with retired Royal Air Force E-3D Sentry aircraft. It acquired three, operating two and using the third for spare parts; the first arrived in July 2022 as FACh 905.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did China buy the Phalcon radar?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">No. Israel agreed to supply Phalcon radars on A-50 aircraft to China, but halted the sale in July 2000 under strong US pressure and formally cancelled it in 2001. Israel paid China about US$350 million in 2002 to settle the deal.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Does India fly the Phalcon?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. India ordered three A-50EI Phalcon AWACS on Il-76 airframes, with the EL\/W-2090 radar, for about US$1.1 billion in 2004. The first arrived at Jamnagar in May 2009 and all three were in service by 2011. 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