Bombardier Defense has announced the delivery of the U.S. Air Force’s ninth Global 6000 for the E-11A BACN program.

The ninth aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s E-11A Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN) program was welcomed in a ceremony held at Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, in September 2025. Hanscom is the headquarters of the BACN program office and is responsible for equipping the aircraft with the BACN payload, upon which it will become an E-11A.

Based on Bombardier’s highly successful Global executive jet platform, the E-11A serves as the primary operational implementation of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node concept, also known as BACN or ‘Bacon’. BACN was developed as a result of lessons learned during operations in the mountainous terrain of Afghani

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