Recently, a very unique and heavily modified Boeing 707 aircraft arrived at the U.S. Air Force's famous boneyard at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. For nearly three decades, Lincoln Laboratory had operated this aircraft, most recently nicknamed Shashambre, as a flying testbed for various advanced sensors, electronics, and more, as part of a collaborative effort with the Air Force.
Shashambre touched down at the boneyard on Oct. 26, 2020. The Lincoln Laboratory, a Department of Defense-funded research and development center housed within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and first founded in 1951, had previously announced that the aircraft, which also carried the U.S. civil registration code N404PA and has been referred to in the past as the Lincoln Multifunction Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Testbed, or LiMIT, had flown its last test mission on Sept. 15.
The War Zone has now obtained pictures, seen at the top of this story and below, of the...
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