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The Boeing Wedgetail is an aircraft developed to meet Australian specifications for an Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) aircraft. The Royal Australian Air Force ordered six Wedgetails, with the first airframes arriving in November 2009. The RAAF's first operational sortie with the aircraft came in 2014 and the following year the aircraft fleet achieved final operational capability. The aircraft has also been purchased by several other air forces around the world, including the Turkish Air Force, South Korea and the United Kingdom.